I had some trepidation about attending Terence Blanchard’s opera Champion because the “sport” of boxing has never appealed to me.
To paraphrase Terence Blanchard’s Champion, what makes an opera an opera?
Washington National Opera continued a focus on recent works this season with Terence Blanchard and Michael Cristofer’s 2013 opera Champion on the life of boxer Emile Griffith.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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