The Met Opera Turns to Boxing Story ‘Champion’ to Draw Mainstream Audience
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.Deep in the bowels of New York City’s Metropolitan Opera on a recent Saturday afternoon, a fight of a more literal sort broke out: a boxing match with punches aplenty, a few blistering taunts and even an eventual knockout.
The Met, as the organization is simply called, has been in rehearsal for the company premiere on Monday of “Champion,” an…