The Register Citizen (Torrington, CT)
Warner’s Met in HD series presents ‘Champion’
TORRINGTON — The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera’s series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts, presents Terence Blanchard’s “Champion,” at 12:55 p.m. Saturday in the Warner Theatre’s Oneglia Auditorium — Main Stage.
A free lecture by Alan Mann, artistic director, The Opera Theatre of CT, will be offered at 10:55 a.m., before the opera in the Warner Theatre Atrium.
For tickets and information, visit warnertheatre.org or call 860-489-7180.
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 2021-22.
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.
The Met: Live in HD 2022-23 season continues with Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” May 20, and finally, Mozart’s “Die Zauberflote” June 3.
Free lectures will be held two hours prior to each Met: Live in HD simulcast, and include a 30-minute presentation followed by a 15-minute Q&A.
The Warner Theatre is a performing arts center in the heart of began in 1931 as an original Warner Bros. studios movie palace.
Today, the Warner is in operation year-round and features a variety of productions including live national touring acts, stage company plays and musicals, dance, standup comedy, movie screenings, opera simulcast, high school graduations, community theater, competitions and other special events that enrich the cultural community.
Northwest Connecticut Association for the Arts’ mission is to preserve the Warner Theatre as an historic landmark, enhance its reputation as a center of artistic excellence and a focal point of community involvement, and satisfy the diverse cultural needs of the region.
To learn more about the Warner Theatre, visit our website at www.warnertheatre.org.