Charles Blow's memoir is now an operatic masterpiece

Two years ago, renowned trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard turned "Fire Shut Up in My Bones," the memoir of New York Times columnist Charles Blow, into an opera that debuted in St. Louis. But in September 2021, "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" made history as the first opera by a Black composer to be performed at the Met.

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