Terence Blanchard
Champion & Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Highlights from two operas by composer and jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard
Featuring Blanchard, the E-Collective and Turtle Island Quartet
Visuals by Andrew F. Scott
Vocalists Justin Austin and Adrienne Danrich
A Soraya Commission in collaboration with LA Opera Off Grand
Sunday, April 6 | 7PM
The Soraya @ Cal State Northridge
Blanchard made history in 2021 as the first Black composer to premiere an original opera at the Metropolitan Opera. Fire Shut up in My Bones took the world by storm, and then he did it again in 2023 with another groundbreaking hit, Champion. A collaboration with Los Angeles Opera Off Grand, The Soraya commissioned a world premiere of selections from both operas performed by Blanchard himself. The American trumpeter and film composer leads his own E-Collective and Turtle Island Quartet with baritone Justin Austin and soprano Adrienne Danrich.
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