And then maybe like two days later, I get a call saying, ‘Well, the job is yours. “I didn’t expect that anything would come of it,” he says, “but I was glad that they were considering me. Taking care to capture the most accurate account of his singing possible, Liverman says he never expected to hear anything back after sending an audition, especially a virtual audition. “Their business was booming because every singer and every performer was doing everything virtually.” Learning the requested aria “in about a day,” Liverman went to PianoForte Chicago on Michigan Avenue to make a video recording. And then for whatever reason, they wanted to recast it.” Finally, we were asking questions of what can we really do to increase the visibility for Black composers and to tell different stories? Peter Gelb made the decision: they already had it on the books, but they just moved it up. But then I think the pandemic coupled with George Floyd started to really change things for a lot of companies. I had heard that the Met was going to present it in a future season, like 2024 or 2025. “I didn’t see the show, but had heard great things and it was getting a lot of attention. Growing up in a gospel church, I automatically assumed it was an opera about church. And it got my attention because the title itself is very intriguing, from Jeremiah. “The opera world is very small,” says Liverman, “so we’re always aware when there’s a premiere of something. I remember when ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ was announced by Opera Theatre of St. Taking the lead role of Charles in both productions is Chicago baritone Will Liverman. Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago that opened the Met’s 2021-22 season, “Fire” is scheduled to close out Lyric’s 2021-22 season. A Metropolitan Opera co-production with L.A. The multi-genre work by jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard is the first opera in the company’s history written by an African American composer. “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” made history when it reopened the Metropolitan Opera in New York last September after an eighteen-month shutdown. Will Liverman as Charles in a scene from Terence Blanchard and Kasi Lemmons’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.” Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera
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