Met Opera Encore: Champion (Terence Blanchard) – Libretto by Michael Cristofer

Saturday, May 13, 2023 at 12:55PM

3 hours 30 minutes

Maine Film Center

Paul J. Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

Met Opera Live in HD: Champion by Terence Blanchard!

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.

Encore screening: One Show Only!
Saturday, May 13
12:55PM

Adult: $19.00
Senior: $17.00
Student: $17.00*
Child: $16.00*
*Eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund. Call the Box Office for more information.

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