MET Opera: Champion (2023)

When Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones opened the Met's 2021--22 season to universal acclaim, it marked a historic moment in the annals of the company. Now, the six-time Grammy Award--winning composer's first opera arrives at the Met. 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.