Champion - The Metropolitan Opera (2023) - Champion - The Metropolitan Opera (2023)

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General Information

  • Production title:Champion - The Metropolitan Opera (2023)
  • Creation date:10/04/2023
  • Work - Composer:Champion - Terence Blanchard
  • Opera house:The Metropolitan Opera.

Description

New production.

"When Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones opened the Met’s 2021–22 season to universal acclaim, it marked a historic moment in the annals of the company. Now, the six-time Grammy Award–winning composer’s first opera arrives at the Met. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green is the young boxer Emile Griffith, who rises from obscurity to become a world champion, and bass-baritone Eric Owens portrays Griffith’s older self, haunted by the ghosts of his past. Soprano Latonia Moore is Emelda Griffith, the boxer’s estranged mother, and mezzo- soprano Stephanie Blythe is the bar owner Kathy Hagan. Yannick Nézet-Séguin is again on the podium for Blanchard’s second Met premiere, and director James Robinson—whose productions of Fire and Porgy and Bess brought down the house—oversees the staging. Camille A. Brown, whose choreography electrified audiences in Fire and Porgy, also returns."

More information is available on the official website of the opera house.

Schedule

April 10, 2023 20:00:00

April 14, 2023 19:30:00

April 18, 2023 19:30:00

April 22, 2023 20:00:00

April 25, 2023 19:30:00

April 29, 2023 13:00:00

May 04, 2023 19:30:00

May 08, 2023 19:30:00

May 13, 2023 20:00:00

Casting

James Robinson

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Eric Owens

Ryan Speedo Green

Latonia Moore

Stephanie Blythe

Meredith Arwady

Work's characters list

Director

Conductor

Emile Griffith

Young Emile Griffith

Emelda Griffith

Kathy Hagan

Kathy Hagan

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