February 23, 2:00 p.m. Ordway Center for the Arts. $15–$111. 

The Arts Partnership will present the excerpts from the opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones in concert featuring seven-time Grammy Award-winner Terence Blanchard on Feb. 23. This will be the show’s Midwest premiere. Based on the 2014 memoir by Charles M. Blow, with music by Blanchard, and libretto by Kasi Lemmons, the opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones premiered at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in 2019. The Metropolitan Opera opened its season with the work in 2021 — the first in its 138 years written by an African American composer. That production’s recording went on to win the 2023 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording, featuring soprano Adrienne Danrich and baritone Will Liverman in the lead role, who will be singing excerpts from that role during this production. Tickets and more info at ordway.org/events/fire-opera.