Have you subscribed to theGrio podcasts, ‘Dear Culture’ or Acting Up? Download our newest episodes now! The landmark production was sold out through its final performance in October. Like The Snowy Day, it was adapted from a book about a young Black child.įire Shut Up in My Bones took the memoir of writer Charles Blow and poignantly retold the tale of a young Black man dealing with childhood trauma while navigating through the racist American South. With music composed by trumpeter and film composer Terence Blanchard, it was the first opera by a Black composer to ever play at the Metropolitan Opera, as theGrio reported. Production of The Snowy Day comes after a historic new opera, Fire Shut Up in My Bones, premiered at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House this past September.
Raven McMillon, an (HGO) studio artist, has taken on the role of Peter in the production, Omer Ben Seadia is directing, and HGO’s Music Director Patrick Summers is conducting the music. Pinkney said it was one of the first books she had in her nursery as a small child. Beginning the creative process in 2019, both Pinkney and Thompson were introduced to The Snowy Day as kids themselves. The children’s story was adapted into an opera by Andrea Davis Pinkney, who wrote the libretto, and Joel Thompson, who composed the music. He makes snow angels, goes sledding, builds a snowman, and experiences the sadness of a melting snowball that he tried to keep with him when he came in from the cold. The book tells the tale of a little Black boy named Peter and follows him as he becomes spellbound after seeing the first snow of the season.
The Snowy Day, written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats, was first published in 1962 and is regarded as the first major picture book for kids featuring Black people as lead characters, according to Texas Monthly. It was a watershed moment, as the opera is an adaptation of a popular children’s picture book of the same name which centered around Black characters. The Houston Grand Opera (HGO) premiered its latest production, The Snowy Day, on Dec. First published in 1962, ‘The Snowy Day’ was among the first major children’s picture books to feature a Black protagonist
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