Pick: Fire Shut Up in My Bones

On fire: Growing up in rural Louisiana, journalist Charles Blow never imagined his life story would one day be portrayed on the world’s most popular opera stage. His memoir, Fire Shut Up in My Bones, a treacherous story of dysfunction and abuse, opened the 2021-22 Metropolitan Opera season. The adaptation by Grammy Award–winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard made history as the first opera by a Black composer (and Black librettist Kasi Lemmons). Victory Hall Opera’s Miriam Gordon-Stewart hosts a lecture before The Met: Live in HD screening. 

Saturday 10/23. $18-25, 12:55pm. The Paramount Theater, 103 E. Main St.,  Downtown Mall. theparamount.net.