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The Metropolitan Opera: Champion

90% | Apr 29, 2023 | Music

Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard brings his first opera to the Met after his Fire Shut Up in My Bones triumphantly premiered with the company to universal acclaim in 2021. 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 takes the podium for Blanchard’s second Met premiere, also reuniting the director-and-choreographer team of James Robinson and Camille A. Brown.

Featured Crew

Michael Cristofer
Screenplay
Terence Blanchard
Music

Cast

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Eric Owens
Emile Griffith
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Latonia Moore
Emelda Griffith
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Eric Greene
Benny "Kid" Paret / Benny Paret, jr.
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Paul Groves
Howie Albert
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Lee Wilkof
Ring Announcer

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