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.
"Terence Blanchard is MAKING HISTORY at the Metropolitan Opera … again."
- NPR
"BLANCHARD HAS DONE IT AGAIN … Even if you don’t fancy yourself as an opera lover or aficionado, his latest opera is a MUST SEE."
- AMSTERDAM NEWS
"TRULY MOVING … The music flows with colorful, unmannered delicacy, the vocal lines are GRACEFUL AND EXPRESSIVE."
- FINANCIAL TIMES
"A WINNING NIGHT at the Metropolitan Opera"
- TOWN & COUNTRY
Sunday 9th July
210 min
CTC
Latonia Moore, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Ryan Speedo Green, Eric Owens, Stephanie Blythe
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The Astor Theatre, The Chauvel Cinema, Palace James St
