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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5334/B.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='New York Met Opera Reopens after 18 Month-long COVID Closure' data-article-id='5923'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='13354'>“We bend, we don't break. We sway!” the performers sing in the second act of Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones.</span> <span data-start-time='13354' data-end-time='26229'>That message of survival in dark times was well-received by the thousands watching the Metropolitan Opera in New York City this week. </span> <span data-start-time='26229' data-end-time='34521'>Its theater went dark in March 2020 in reaction to the COVID-19 crisis. </span> <span data-start-time='34521' data-end-time='40688'>It reopened Monday night at its Lincoln Center home.</span> <span data-start-time='40688' data-end-time='46625'>The suspension had lasted 566 days. </span> <span data-start-time='46625' data-end-time='52938'>COVID may have bent The Met, but the Met did not break.</span> <span data-start-time='52938' data-end-time='56646'>The showing made Met Opera history: </span> <span data-start-time='56646' data-end-time='64875'>Blanchard became the first Black composer to have his work performed by the Met.</span> <span data-start-time='64875' data-end-time='74833'>About 4,000 people attended the event, and many in the crowd wore costly clothes and shiny jewels. </span> <span data-start-time='74833' data-end-time='84313'>The fans met with each other warmly, seeming to share in the joy they felt to be back at Lincoln Center.</span> <span data-start-time='84313' data-end-time='91979'>At the end of the opera, the crowd went wild --- applauding for more than eight minutes.</span> <span data-start-time='91979' data-end-time='103917'>Kasi Lemmons wrote the words to Fire Shut Up in My Bones based on a story by Charles M. Blow, a New York Times opinion writer. </span> <span data-start-time='103917' data-end-time='112521'>Blow and Lemmons both received loud cheers when they appeared on stage with Blanchard.</span> <span data-start-time='112521' data-end-time='119708'>The night was a great victory for the 59-year-old composer and trumpet player. </span> <span data-start-time='119708' data-end-time='124313'>Like Blow, Blanchard is from Louisiana.</span> <span data-start-time='124313' data-end-time='129521'>That southern state is where the story takes place. </span> <span data-start-time='129521' data-end-time='138688'>It explores child sex abuse in segregated northern Louisiana during the 1970s.</span> <span data-start-time='138688' data-end-time='149271'>This was Blanchard’s second opera after 2013s Champion, based on the life of professional fighter Emile Griffith.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' 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data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5334/the_temporary_prevention_of_something_from_continuing.wav'><span>the temporary prevention of something from continuing</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5334/a_regular_payment_made_during_a_persons_retirement.wav'><span>a regular payment made during a person's retirement</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5334/the_state_of_being_stretched_tight.wav'><span>the state of being stretched tight</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5334/a_reference_to_someone_or_something.wav'><span>a reference to someone or something</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=18139 data-hint-location='40688' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5334/how_long_did_the_suspension_last.wav'>How long did the suspension last?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='Five hundred sixty-six days'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5334/five_hundred_sixtysix_days.wav'><span>Five hundred sixty-six days</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5334/fifty_days.wav'><span>Fifty days</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5334/five_hundred_six_days.wav'><span>Five hundred six days</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5334/four_hundred_sixty_days.wav'><span>Four hundred sixty days</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=18140 data-hint-location='13354' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5334/that_message_of_survival_in_dark_times_was_wellreceived_by_the_thousands_watching_the_metropolitan_opera_in_new_york__blank__this_week_.wav'>That message of survival in dark times was well-received by the thousands watching the Metropolitan Opera in New York <span class='blank'>City</span> this week. </div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='City'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5334/city.wav'><span>City</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5334/town.wav'><span>Town</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5334/bridge.wav'><span>bridge</span></div><div class='choice' 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