When Terence Blanchard learned that his opera Fire Shut Up In My Bones would be the first-ever opera by a Black composer to be staged at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in its 138-year history, he was surprised. Blanchard said, “I may be the first, but I’m not the first qualified.” Blanchard went on to say “I’m not trying to cast aspersions on the Met…but it’s an amazing thing to go from Porgy and Bess to Fire Shut Up In My Bones with not...