THE MET: LIVE IN HD 2022–23: CHAMPION
Director:
Cast: Latonia Moore, Eric Owens, Ryan Speedo Green, Stephanie Blythe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin,
Genre: Live Show | Rating: | Runtime: 210 Minutes
Six time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard brings his first opera to the Met after his Fire Shut Up in My Bones made history in the 2021–22 season.
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 mezzosoprano
Stephanie Blythe is the bar owner Kathy Hagan.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin returns to the podium to
conduct Blanchard’s second Met premiere.
Director James Robinson, whose productions of Fire Shut Up in My Bones and Porgy and Bess brought down the house, oversees the staging. Camille A. Brown, whose choreography electrified audiences in Fire and Porgy, also returns.
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 mezzosoprano
Stephanie Blythe is the bar owner Kathy Hagan.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin returns to the podium to
conduct Blanchard’s second Met premiere.
Director James Robinson, whose productions of Fire Shut Up in My Bones and Porgy and Bess brought down the house, oversees the staging. Camille A. Brown, whose choreography electrified audiences in Fire and Porgy, also returns.
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