The Metropolitan Opera: Champion (2023)

  • NR
  • 04/29/2023 (US)
  • Music
  • 2h 55m

Overview

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.

Michael Cristofer

Screenplay

James Robinson

Director

Gary Halvorson

Director

Cast

Eric Owens's headshot

Eric Owens

Emile Griffith
Latonia Moore's headshot

Latonia Moore

Emelda Griffith
Eric Greene's headshot

Eric Greene

Benny "Kid" Paret / Benny Paret, jr.
Paul Groves's headshot

Paul Groves

Howie Albert
Lee Wilkof's headshot

Lee Wilkof

Ring Announcer
Stephanie Blythe's headshot

Stephanie Blythe

Kathy Hagen
Edward Nelson's headshot

Edward Nelson

Man in Bar
Krysty Swann's headshot

Krysty Swann

Cousin Blanche

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