The new staging is conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and directed by James Robinson and Camille A. Brown – two of the creators of the Met’s sensational recent production of Porgy and Bess. The all Black cast showcases baritone Will Liverman, one of opera’s most exciting young artists, in the lead role as Charles, alongside sopranos Angel Blue as Destiny / Loneliness / Greta and Latonia Moore as Charles’s mother Billie.