Works & Process at the Guggenheim announces Washington National Opera: Champion by Terence Blanchard
7:30 – 9:30PM
On Sunday, February 12, 2017 at 7:30pm, Works & Process at the Guggenheim presents excerpts from Champion by five-time Grammy award-winning musician and playwright Terence Blanchard, who tells the true story of Emile Griffith in his haunting and visually stunning “opera in jazz.” The work, which blew critics away when it premiered in 2013, explores the life of the closeted gay boxer whose knockout of a homophobic rival in the early 1960s let to unexpected tragedy. Washington National Opera Artistic Director Francesca Zambello will moderate a discussion with Blanchard, Deynce Graves and other members of the cast following performance excerpts.
Blanchard’s opera will open anew with Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center’s Opera House in Washington, DC on March 4, 2017. Of the 2013 premiere, The New York Times said Champion “strikes a resonant chord,” while the Chicago Tribune called it “a new work of quality and staying power.”
Tickets & Venue
$40, $35 Guggenheim members and Friends of Works & Process.
$10 Student Rush Tickets available one hour prior to each performance (if space allows, for students under 25 with valid ID).
Box Office (212) 423-3575, (M–F, 1–5pm) or online at worksandprocess.org
Peter B. Lewis Theater
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, New York