Great Performances - Season 51 Episode 5 Great Performances at the Met: Champion
Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard returns to the Met with an opera based on the true story of boxer Emile Griffith, who rose from obscurity to become a world champion despite being a closeted bisexual. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green stars as the young boxer, with bass-baritone Eric Owens as Griffith’s older self, haunted by the ghosts of his past. Soprano Latonia Moore also stars as Emelda Griffith, the boxer’s estranged mother, and mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe plays the gay bar owner, Kathy Hagen. The production reunites the creative team from last season’s Great Performances at the Met: Fire Shut Up in My Bones, including conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, director James Robinson, and choreographer Camille A. Brown. Lawrence Brownlee hosts.
Year: 2024
Genre: Comedy, Documentary, Drama
Country: United States of America
Studio: PBS
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Cast: Bray Poor
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First Air Date: Jan 28, 1971
Last Air date: May 31, 2024
Season: 49 Season
Episode: 640 Episode
Runtime: 120 minutes
IMDb: 4.90/10 by 15.00 users
Popularity: 69.96
Language: English
Keyword : filmed theater
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Great Performances at the Met: Der Rosenkavalier
Great Performances at the Met: Don Giovanni
New York City Ballet in Madrid
Message In A Bottle
Great Performances at the Met: Champion
Making Shakespeare: The First Folio
Great Performances at the Met: Die Zauberflöte
From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2024
Great Performances at the Met: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
The LA Phil Celebrates Frank Gehry
George Jones: Still Playin’ Possum
Great Performances at the Met: Dead Man Walking
Great Performances at the Met: Florencia en el Amazonas
Now Hear This
Now Hear This
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Now Hear This
Great Performances at the Met: Nabucco
Hamlet
Audra McDonald at the London Palladium
Purlie Victorious
Rodgers & Hammerstein's 80th Anniversary