MET MUSIC DIRECTOR YANNICK NÉZET-SÉGUIN CONDUCTS GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING JAZZ MUSICIAN AND COMPOSER TERENCE BLANCHARD’S ADAPTATION OF CHARLES M. BLOW’S MOVING MEMOIR. THE FIRST OPERA BY A BLACK COMPOSER PRESENTED ON THE MET STAGE AND FEATURING A LIBRETTO BY FILMMAKER KASI LEMMONS, THE OPERAS TELLS A POIGNANT AND PROFOUND STORY ABOUT A YOUNG MAN’S JOURNEY TO OVERCOME A LIFE OF TRAUMA AND HARDSHIP. JAMES ROBINSON AND CAMILLE A. BROWN—TWO OF THE CREATORS OF THE RECENT PRODUCTION OF THE GERSHWINS’ PORGY AND BESS—CO-DIRECT THIS NEW STAGING, LIVE IN CINEMAS ON OCTOBER 23. BARITONE WILL LIVERMAN, ONE OF OPERA’S MOST EXCITING YOUNG ARTISTS, STARS AS CHARLES, ALONGSIDE SOPRANOS ANGEL BLUE AS DESTINY/LONELINESS/GRETA AND LATONIA MOORE AS BILLIE.