Great Performances S51E05 Champion 1080p WEB H264-HYMN EZTV
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Great Performances is a television series devoted to the performing arts, has been telecast on PBS since 1972. The show is produced by WNET in New York City. It is one of the longest running performing arts anthologies on television, second only to Hallmark Hall of Fame. Great Performances presents concerts, ballet, opera, an occasional documentary, and plays. The series has also won many television awards, including an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, and an Image Award, with nods from the Directors Guild of America and the Cinema Audio Society.
Filmed and televised versions of theater productions, such as plays, musicals, operas, ballets, and concerts from around the world.
S51 Ep5
Great Performances at the Met: Champion
Premiere: 11/5/2023 | 02:47:12 | TV-MA |
Six-time Grammy Award winning composer Terence Blanchard returns to the Met
with an opera based on the true story of boxer Emile Griffith, who rose from
obscurity to become a world champion despite being a closeted bisexual.
Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green stars as the young boxer, with bass-baritone
Eric Owens as Griffith's older self, haunted by the ghosts of his past.
Soprano Latonia Moore also stars as Emelda Griffith, the boxer's estranged
mother, and mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe plays the gay bar owner,
Kathy Hagen. The production reunites the creative team from last season's
Great Performances at the Met: Fire Shut Up in My Bones, including conductor
Yannick Ne zet-Se guin, director James Robinson, and choreographer Camille A. Brown.
Lawrence Brownlee hosts.
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