Terence Blanchard received a seven-minute standing ovation after the opening night performance of “Fire Shut Up In My Bones,” marking his becoming the first Black composer to step onto the stage of ...

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. Fire Shut Up in My Bones will be composed and ...

History is being made tonight at New York's Metropolitan Opera: For the first time in 138 years, the eminent company will present an opera by a Black composer. After 18 months of pandemic-canceled ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Grammy-winning musician Terence Blanchard became the first Black composer in the Metropolitan Opera's 138-year history Monday. As CBS2's Cory James reported, audiences across ...

Jeanine Tesori will become the first woman composer to open the season for the Metropolitan Opera in its 141-year history. Her revised opera, Grounded, will premiere at New York's Met on Monday night, ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with a special compilation titled ...

Lisette Oropesa stars as Elvira in Charles Edwards’s new production of Bellini’s final masterpiece, alongside Lawrence Brownlee as Arturo, Artur Ruciński as Riccardo, and Christian Van Horn as Giorgio ...

Fire Shut Up in My Bones, based on the Charles M. Blow memoir of the same title, is the first work by a Black composer to be staged by the... Terence Blanchard Makes History At The Metropolitan Opera ...