The Metropolitan Opera Reopens in a Blaze of Glory

The Metropolitan Opera opened its 2021–22 season September 27 with the premiere of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, marking the company’s first performance of an opera by a Black composer.

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