EditorialThe author and journalist Charles M. Blow, left, whose memoir inspired the opera ?Fire Shut Up in My Bones,? with Kasi Lemmons, who wrote its poetic libretto, at the opening night of the opera at the Met in New York, Sept. 27, 2021. (Jackie Molloy/The New York Times)
EditorialSarah Ruhl, who worked with Matthew Aucoin to adapt her 2003 play into an opera libretto, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, on Jan. 29, 2020. (Emily Berl/The New York Times)