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 ...

3 VIDEO: Aigul Akhmetshina and Piotr Beczała Perform “Je vais danser en votre honneur” from Bizet's CARMEN At The Metropolitan Opera 4 Review: When Akhmetshina’s On Stage, Don’t Fence The Met's New ...

Charleston has some serious opera street cred. It’s true: When you consider the George Gershwin standard, “Summertime,” was plucked from a Charleston-set opera and the first colonial operatic ...

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, ...

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 ...