Cast members perform during a rehearsal Sept. 24 of “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” an opera by jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. The opera, the first by a Black composer in Met history, is based on the 2014 memoir of New York Times columnist Charles Blow.
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“We bend, we don’t break. We sway!” sings the chorus in the second act of Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.”
