The Met, as the organization is simply called, has been in rehearsal for the company premiere on Monday of “Champion,” an opera by the Grammy-winning jazz...
NEW YORK — In the ever-dramatic world of opera, conflicts of all sorts play out behind the scenes. Singers make royal demands of management. Musicians push for better pay.
The Met, as the organization is simply called, has been in rehearsal for the company premiere on Monday of “Champion,” an opera by the Grammy-winning jazz artist Terence Blanchard that tells the story of Emile Griffith, a boxer who rose to fame more than a half-century ago. In the process, Green shed 60 or so pounds to a fighting weight of about 240 and developed a taste for foods such as salmon and green beans for the first time in his life.It turned out, trimming down also helped his singing. “It didn’t really change my voice,” he says, “but because my body changed, I was able to access more breath, which leads to all sorts of positive things about the voice…mostly that there’s a more energized sound to pull from.
The U.S. Virgin Islands-born Griffith, who died in 2013 at the age of 75, was an unlikely boxing champion. He had once worked in a hat factory, and he faced rumors during his professional life that he was gay — something far from accepted in professional sports at the time, let alone the machismo-driven world of boxing.
Green has a boxing foe in Eric Greene, a baritone who is making his Met debut in the role of Paret. Eric Greene says he has also done his share of training to ready himself for the production, and recalls raising a few eyebrows during his boxing workouts when he explained the operatic reasons behind his regimen.
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