Opening night at The Met is just really, really special.” “A few of my friends are singing here tonight and I’m just so excited to be here. “This is of course the first time a Black composer is premiering an opera here at the Metropolitan,” actor Laverne Cox said. We’re actually distant relatives,” actor Wendell Pierce said. I went to school with him at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Many came to opening night to celebrate the milestone and the return of live performances to New York City.
“What I’m trying to do is, take the DNA of American jazz and bring it into this form and develop the opera based on that,” Blanchard said. “But it’s not just for me it’s for all of the other people who wish they could have been here.”Īs far as the genre, he says it’s opera infused with jazz. “It means the world to me,” Blanchard said. Instead, the entire plaza was filled with ticket-holders, and people used it as their own red carpet and snapped photos
There was no red carpet for the opening night.Terence Blanchard composed the score and says he’s thrilled to make history, but also wants to acknowledge the many talented Black composers who were overlooked for decades.The opening night opera, “Fire Shut Up In My Bones,” is the first opera composed by an African American to ever be performed at the Met in its 138-year history.After being closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Met Opera makes a triumphant return.
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