Dancers perform a scene during a rehearsal for Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones”
NEW YORK – After an 18-month shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic and protracted labor disputes with its musicians and crew, the Metropolitan Opera reopened Monday with a history-making debut — the first work by a Black composer.
“Fire Shut Up In My Bones,” a poignant opera centered on the tension of growing up a Black man in the American South, was composed by Terence Blanchard, a top-tier jazz trumpeter and Spike Lee’s go-to film score master for three decades.
When the premier US opera company in 2019 first announced its forthcoming staging, it was unclear when exactly “Fire” would come to Manhattan.
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