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Run Time: 3 hours 20 minutes
Sixtime Grammy Awardwinning 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. Bassbaritone Ryan Speedo Green is the young boxer Emile Griffith, who rises from obscurity to become a world champion, and bassbaritone 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 mezzosoprano Stephanie Blythe is the bar owner Kathy Hagan. Yannick NzetSguin takes the podium for Blanchard’s second Met premiere, also reuniting the directorandchoreographer team of James Robinson and Camille A. Brown.


Music: Terence Blanchard
Language: English, with English subtitles

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