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Champion / Terence Blanchard.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Operas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr., 46 min., 11 sec.)) : sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [2023]
- Language Note:
- Sung in English.
- System Details:
- Wide screen.
- digital
- video file streaming video file
- Summary:
- Terence Blanchard made history in 2021 when his Fire Shut Up in My Bones became the first opera by a Black composer to be presented by the Met. The overwhelming success of that production brought the Grammy Award-winning composer and jazz trumpeter back the following season for the company premiere of Champion, about real-life boxer Emile Griffith. In this Live in HD transmission, bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green stars as the young prizefighter, who battles demons in and out of the ring, while bass-baritone Eric Owens portrays Griffith's older self, haunted by a pivotal moment from his past. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a knockout new production by James Robinson, which also features baritone Eric Greene as the opponent whom Griffith inadvertently kills; soprano Latonia Moore as Griffith's mother, Emelda; tenor Paul Groves as his coach, Howie Albert; and mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe as bar owner Kathy Hagen, who offers him much-needed solace. Content Advisory: Champion addresses adult themes and contains adult language.
- Contents:
- Opening Credits
- Introduction by Lawrence Brownlee
- Peter Gelb interview with Terence Blanchard
- This is my shoe
- In this corner (Round 1)
- Oh boy dat boy is happy
- Champagne dreams and lime juice money
- Emelda Griffith, is that you?
- Seven babies in the sun
- In this corner (Round 2)
- What do you do when you're sitting on a dream that never comes true
- Hey Mr. Albert
- Tarzan knows which trees to climb
- Hey kid, welcome to Hagen's hole
- You play hard, fighter man
- In this corner (Round 3)
- This night is long
- In my head it happens fast
- This is my shirt
- In this corner (Round 4)
- Hey Chico hey hey hey
- Ain't he pretty?
- Howie?
- Yeah kid, what?
- What makes a man a man
- Don't listen Emile don't think
- In my head it happens fast
- Intoduction to Act II by Lawrence Brownlee
- In this corner, in this corner, in a cold comma on a sheet
- Hey, Benny
- You see me in the dark yes
- Scene 4, Don't go Benny!
- Gin and tonic. No fruit
- Oh boy dat boy is happy
- Oh baby wha da ya think ypu're doin?
- Gonna drive a fast car
- Far away long ago
- July 15th, 1962
- How does it feel to kill a man?
- Emile?
- Who's that?
- Hey man ; . buy you a drink?
- Yo, yo, yo ; .Look at this cat right here
- Emile! Emile
- Interlude
- In this corner ; . In this corner.
- What is it you want from me?
- At the end of the day Emile
- Bows and Closing Credits
- Backstage at the Met with host Lawrence Brownlee. James Robinson and Camille A. Brown ; Interview with Ryan Speedo Green ; Interview with Eric Owens ; Interview with Yannick Nézet-Séguin ; Interview with Latonia Moore and Stephanie Blythe.
- Participant:
- Stephanie Blythe, Paul Groves, Eric Greene, Ryan Speedo Green, Eric Owens ; the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus, and Ballet ; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor.
- Notes:
- Recorded live 2023 April 29 the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Contains:
- Container of: Blanchard, Terence. Champion.
- OCLC:
- 1433152928
- Publisher Number:
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- 810004203228
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- Restricted for use by site license.
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