The Metropolitan Opera: Champion (2023)
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.
- Date of release
- 2023-04-29
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 2h 55m
- Genres
- Music
- Director
- James Robinson, Gary Halvorson
Casting
- Eric Owens — Emile Griffith
- Latonia Moore — Emelda Griffith
- Eric Greene — Benny "Kid" Paret / Benny Paret, jr.
- Paul Groves — Howie Albert
- Lee Wilkof — Ring Announcer
- Stephanie Blythe — Kathy Hagen
- Edward Nelson — Man in Bar
- Krysty Swann — Cousin Blanche
- Ethan Joseph — Little Emile
- Helena Brown — Lucia Paret
- Tshombe Selby — Mano Alfano
- Brittany Renee — Sadie Donastorg Griffith
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