"The Tense, Turbulent Sounds of “Fire Shut Up in My Bones"

For a review of ‘A Fire Shut Up In My Bones’, Terence Blanchard's new opera at the Met adapted from the Charles Blow memoir. I tried to think about what it means to have a fire shut up in ones bones, and for me it evoked a sense of an overwhelming rage with no catharsis in sight, and perhaps resorting to internalizing it instead. Being choked up with anger and crying in the middle of an argument? A matchstick struck in your childhood, becoming an engulfing flame in adulthood..?

Art Direction by Alexandra Zsigmonda