CHAMPION Comes to Greenbrier Valley Theatre This Month
The performance is on April 29 at 12:55pm.
By: Stephi Wild Apr. 10, 2023
Champion by Terence Blanchard, with libretto by Michael Cristofer, comes to Greenbrier Valley Theatre this month. The performance is on April 29 at 12:55pm.
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.
West Virginia Awards - Live Stats
Best Musical - Top 3
1.
INTO THE WOODS (Appalachian Community Theatre)
31.3% of votes
2.
THE WIZARD OF OZ (Old Opera House Theatre Co)
20.4% of votes
3.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (The Actors Guild of Parkersburg)
16.5% of votes
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