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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Met Archivist Peter Clark discusses the history and characteristics of verismo opera and how Giordano’s passionate drama exhibits all the hallmarks of this movement in late–19th-century Italian opera.

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 ...