Champion
Item
- Score title
- Champion
- Composer
- Terence Blanchard
- More about the composer
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Terence Blanchard
- Date
- 2013
- Library copy
- Borrow from UMKC Libraries
- Program note
- "Champion: An Opera in Jazz" premiered at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in 2013. In his soulful score Blanchard captures the life and struggles in the early ‘60s of African American welterweight champion Emile Griffith from St. Thomas as he deals with a tragedy in his career as well as his bisexuality. The libretto was by Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Cristofer.