His years being a part of an orchestra came in handy when he transitioned to opera. “I said, ‘I’m done with musical instruments.’”
I thought, ‘I can’t do this.’ So I became a band geek.” He played the clarinet, flute, and piccolo until his junior year at Central High School, when he switched to choir. When he was seven or eight, he sang an Easter solo in church. His first foray into singing did not go well. His younger sister, Razel, graduated from UT in 2019. Sellers grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Eugene, a lab supervisor at a chemical plant, and Estrelita, a high school cosmetology teacher and beauty shop owner. I have friends who have covered for the Met for years and never gone on.” “I thought I was going to lose it,” says Sellers. Griffin had tested positive for COVID-19 and was isolating for 10 days, so Sellers would be going on as Adult Robert on October 8 and 13-his mainstage Met debut.
Sellers had been covering-that is, serving as understudy-for Calvin Griffin in the role of Adult Robert in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, based on the life of New York Times columnist Charles Blow. The message was from Paul Hopper, associate artistic administrator of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. What?’ I said to my friends, ‘I want you to read it to make sure.’ I read the email again and again.” University of Tennessee, Knoxville, alumnus Rocky Sellers was on a four-day vacation in New Orleans, eating chicken étouffée at Antoine’s Restaurant and chatting with his friends about life, when he saw an email on his phone.
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