The story of the stereotype-breaking boxer, Emile Griffith, is coming alive at the Met this Monday night! NPR's Tom Vitale took us behind the scenes of @T_Blanchard's new opera, "Champion," to see how the masterpiece was created...tune in here: npr.org/2023/04/08/116…
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@NPRWeekend @T_Blanchard Oh. This sounds really wonderful. Emile Griffith was a fantastic boxer who lived in times when being gay, as he was, was dangerous to have known.