For First Time in History, Metropolitan Opera Performing Work of a Black Composer

Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images By Kevin L. Clark ·September 28, 2021 Updated

The Metropolitan Opera’s season opened on Monday, Sept. 27, and for the first time in its 138-year history, it will perform an opera by a Black composer.The staging of Fire Shut Up in My Bones will mark a return to normalcy for the Met, which hasn’t had an opera performance in its house in 18 months. Charles Blow, whose book

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