Tag: Metropolitan Opera
Terence Blanchard’s opera CHAMPION about legendary gay boxer Emile Griffith heads for The Met in NY
Terence Blanchard’s six-time Grammy Award–winning composer’s operatic retelling of the dramatic story of gay boxer Emile Griffith arrives in New York. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green stars as the closeted young hatmaker-turned-prizefighter, who rises from obscurity to become world champion and, in one of the great tragedies in sports history, kills his homophobic archrival in…
PBS to air the Metropolitan Opera’s ” achingly — almost painfully — pretty, relentlessly stirring opera” THE HOURS
Michael Cunningham.’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, novel The Hour was made into an Oscar-winning 2002 film of the same name starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. now it has been adapted into an Opera. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts The Hours was written for Renée Fleming to make her highly anticipated return to the Met Inspired by…
Queerguru’s José Mayorga is ‘rightfully’ besotted with diva Renee Fleming and the new Opera written for her
MRS. DALLOWAY SAID SHE WOULD BUY THE FLOWERS HERSELF… Virginia Woolf The Metropolitan Opera presents the world-premiere production of The Hours, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Michael Cunningham, and the Academy Award-winning film directed by Stephen Daldry and produced by Paramount Pictures. It is composed by Kevin Puts, a Pulitzer Prize…
