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# The Guests Really Turned It Out at the Met's Opera Opening
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/the-guests-really-turned-it-out-at-the-mets-opera-opening-09-2019/
- Published: 2019-09-25T15:00:20.000Z
- Updated: 2019-09-25T00:36:50.000Z
- Description: Laverne Cox, you goddess.
- Author: Heather
- Tags: Well Played, Cristina Ottaviano, Dries Van Noten, Zac Posen, #wp, #wp-post, #hasslideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 08:07

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For those who want to know, the first opera in the Met's new season is Porgy and Bess, co-produced with the English and Dutch national operas. There's a guy in it named Ryan Speedo Green, and initially, I was intrigued by the name -- he was born on April 1, and says his bodybuilder father decided to name him after his favorite sporting line, to be funny -- but it turns out [he's had one hell of a life story, including spending time in solitary confinement in juvy when he was 12](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/01/arts/music/ryan-speedo-green-metropolitan-opera-sing-for-your-life.html?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io). He wrote a book about it, too. Opera and the right teacher changed his life; now he's a regular on the Met stage. Pretty amazing.

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