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ROCKLAND — The Strand Theatre’s 2022-23 season of Metropolitan Opera simulcasts continues on Saturday, April 29, at 1 p.m., with Champion , Terence Blanchard’s first opera at the Met following Fire Shut Up In My Bones . An encore...

In search of new audiences, the Met has followed Terence Blanchard’s FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES with the jazz musician/composer’s first opera, CHAMPION, the story of closeted boxer Emile Griffith’s rise and fall from grace. Honestly, never have I heard people whose usual venues are Madison Square Garden, Yankee Stadium and Monday Night Football on ESPN talk about how they “wanted to see the new opera at the Met.”

ROCKLAND — The Strand Theatre’s 2022-23 season of Metropolitan Opera simulcasts continues Saturday, April 29, at 1 p.m. with "Champion," Terence Blanchard’s first opera at the Met following "Fire Shut

In Champion, Blanchard and Michael Cristofer attempt to give form to Griffith’s life outside his fateful 1962 match.

Following its Metropolitan Opera premiere on April 10th, Terence Blanchard's opera Champion, based on the true story of the troubled former middleweight boxing champion Emile Griffith, continues with nine performances running through May 13.

NEW YORK (AP) — When Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” proved a sell-out hit at the Metropolitan Opera in 2021, general manager Peter Gelb wasted no time lining up the composer’s other opera for the current season.

Now playing at the Met, Champion follows the life of the boxer Emile Griffith, who was closeted.

Discover the gripping story of "Champion", the opera about a bisexual boxer who tragically killed a man in the ring. Read our review now.

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