Sunday, March 12, 2017

Champion at WNO

I wrote about the premiere of Champion at WNO for Parterre:
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. Though many of the stumbling blocks one might expect are no doubt present in this first attempt at an opera from Blanchard, there is also much to appreciate in this ambitious work.

Read the whole thing here...

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