Emile Griffith, a former world champion in the welterweight and middleweight divisions, and a member of the Hall of Fame - passed away on Tuesday at the age of 75. He fought from 1958 to 1977 and had ...

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Three different singers play the welterweight boxer Emile Griffith in Lyric Opera’s visceral production of Terence Blanchard’s 2013 jazz opera “Champion.” That’s not uncommon in biographical stories, ...

Emile Griffith, who won the welterweight and middleweight boxing titles and fought professionally for 20 years, but who was most remembered for a fatal barrage of punches in a championship bout at ...

Inside the smaller theater at Madison Square Garden about five years ago, shortly before a world title fight, Emile Griffith was introduced one more time to the crowd. He rose shakily from his seat, ...

An opera based on the true story of boxer Emile Griffith. Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard returns to the Met with an opera based on the true story of boxer Emile Griffith, who ...

NEW YORK:The ex-champ was a few inches shorter than I'd imagined, and he had put on a few pounds. At age 67, all of his hair and some of his memory were gone. Absorbing blows over several years from ...

The New York Metropolitan Opera House opened in 1883, just 20 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. Its creators built this stately center of high art and high class, likely without ...

This spring, the Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated composer and jazz musician Terence Blanchard is bringing his opera “Champion” to the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The “opera in jazz,” as ...