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Composer Terence Blanchard’s work effectively pairs young and old versions of fighter Emile Griffith, who struggled with male identity and the aftermath of a knockout that proved deadly.
“Hopefully he would say we got it right to a large degree. . To show the humanity in him was important to the story,” Blanchard says of the late Griffith, the subject of his 2013 opera.