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The Met Live in HD: Champion (Blanchard) (Encore)
May 13, 2023
Lincoln Theater will NOT be showing Blanchard’s “Champion” on the Live in HD date of Saturday April 29. Champion will be shown at Lincoln Theater as an ENCORE ONLY Saturday May 13 at 1 PM.
A Met Premiere!
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.
Approx. Running Time: 3 hours, 20 minutes (with 1 Intermission)
This is an encore screening, rescheduled from its original date of Saturday April 29.
All ticket sales are final – nonrefundable and nontransferable.
Tickets are available at the door beginning 30 minutes before showtime, or in advance* through our online box office.
*Advance tickets or confirmation emails may be printed for admission OR you may check in with your email address at the theater box office when you arrive.