Green, Ryan Speedo

Review: A ‘Moby-Dick’ Opera at the Met Cuts the Blubber

Streamlining Melville’s sprawling novel, Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s moody, monochromatic 2010 adaptation has come to the Metropolitan Opera.

By Zachary Woolfe

Blanchard, Terence Brown, Camille A Classical Music Fire Shut Up in My Bones (Opera) Green, Ryan Speedo Lemmons, Kasi Metropolitan Opera Opera

‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ Review: A Met Milestone Returns

After making history as the Metropolitan Opera’s first work by a Black composer, Terence Blanchard’s “Fire” is back — with its showstopping step dance.

By Zachary Woolfe

Blanchard, Terence Boxing Champion (Opera) Green, Ryan Speedo Griffith, Emile Homosexuality and Bisexuality Metropolitan Opera Opera

Putting the Brutality of a Prize Fight on the Met Opera Stage

Terence Blanchard’s “Champion,” about the fighter Emile Griffith, is the rare opera to engage with sports. A boxing consultant helped keep it gritty.

By Victor Mather

Blanchard, Terence Champion (Opera) Classical Music Fire Shut Up in My Bones (Opera) Green, Ryan Speedo Jazz Metropolitan Opera Nezet-Seguin, Yannick Opera

Review: ‘Champion,’ at the Met Opera, Spars With History

Terence Blanchard’s jazz-inflected work tells the real-life story of the boxer Emile Griffith, haunted by guilt when an opponent died after a fight.

By Zachary Woolfe