It is the Met’s first opera by a Black composer and tells a story based on the powerful memoir by New York Times columnist Charles Blow about growing up Black in Louisiana. The Met’s regular season opens September 27 with a new opera called Fire Shut Up in My Bones by composer and jazz musician Terence Blanchard. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, home to the Washington National Opera, begins a new season after closing for the pandemic. In a season prelude, ballet star Misty Copeland will host New York’s Metropolitan Opera’s staging of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem, a performance that will be both in person and broadcast on television. opera companies are resuming indoor performances, albeit in many cases planning abbreviated seasons that include livestream options to complement the in-person performances. (© Kathy Willens/AP Images)Ī year and a half after switching to virtual programming due to the pandemic, U.S. It will reopen to live audiences this month. The Metropolitan Opera House is illuminated at dusk in New York's Lincoln Center.
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