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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 · Champion was the first opera composed by Terence Blanchard—following numerous high-profile film scores and many years as a leading jazz artist—and depicts the conflicts and crises in the life of boxer Emile Griffith. When Blanchard was initially approached to write an opera, this subject emerged as the story that he felt most ...
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. Ryan Speedo Green as the boxer Emile...
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 ...
9. Apr. 2023 · Terence Blanchard’s “Champion,” which premiered in 2013, opens at the Metropolitan Opera in a revised and expanded version on Monday. Ike Edeani for The New York Times. By Seth Colter...
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 — Paret died...
