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Fire Shut Up In My Bones
Fire Shut Up in My Bones. Photo © Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera

Fire Shut Up in My Bones 
Terence Blanchard’s important new work is gut-wrenching, but it’s also uplifting

Contemporary works at New York’s Metropolitan Opera can be few and far between but Fire Shut Up in My Bones, which opened the 2021/22 season, can stake multiple claims to prominence. Terence Blanchard’s bold new opera is a genuine landmark. As the Met’s first opera by a Black composer and librettist it had,...