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Champion is an opera in two acts and ten scenes with music by Terence Blanchard and a libretto by Michael Cristofer. Based on the life of African-American welterweight boxer Emile Griffith, this opera is a joint co-commission by Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (OTSL) and Jazz St. Louis.
29. Apr. 2023 · 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 2021–22.
11. Apr. 2023 · Terence Blanchard’s jazz-inflected work tells the real-life story of the boxer Emile Griffith, haunted by guilt when an opponent died after a fight.
5. Feb. 2024 · New York, NY (February 5, 2024)—The Met’s recording of Terence Blanchard’s Champion won the 2024 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. The opera, which had its company premiere on April 10, 2023, was Blanchard’s second opera on the Met stage.
Champion. 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 ...
11. Apr. 2023 · Champion is the story of welterweight boxer Emile Griffith who, in one of the most notorious events in boxing history, knocked his opponent Benny “Kid” Paret into a coma in the ring —...
9. Apr. 2023 · Supervising all this was the composer and trumpeter Terence Blanchard. He watched as his first opera, “Champion,” took shape ahead of its Met debut on Monday.
