Terence Blanchard Becomes First Black Composer At Metropolitan Opera On Historic Night At Lincoln Center

CBS New York

September 28, 2021

It’s a historic night at the famed Metropolitan Opera on Monday with the first production by a Black composer in its history.

Audiences across Manhattan are seeing it for free, CBS2’s Cory James reported.

People in long gowns and tuxedos gathered around the fountain outside Lincoln Center waiting to go inside to see “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” at the Met.

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