Šampion

In the 2021-2022 season, the Metropolitan Opera premiered the opera Fire in the Bones by six-time Grammy Award-winning composer Terence Blanchard. In 2022, the Met presents his first opera Champion. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green will play Emil Griffith, a young boxer who rose from nothing to world champion. Bass-baritone Eric Owens sings the same character, but in a later age, haunted by the horrors of the past. Soprano Latonia Moore is the boxer's estranged mother Emelda Griffith, and Stephanie Blythe sings bar owner Kathy Hagan. Blanchard's second premiere at the Metropolitan Opera will again be conducted by its music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Following his directorial success with Fire in the Bones and Porgy and Bess, James Robinson, who, as in both of these productions, once again joined forces with choreographer Camille A. Brown.