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Blanchard’s Champion at the Met Pulls Its Emotional Punches

The singers suffer from James Robinson’s underbaked characterizations and the tonal whiplash of the text, while the opera itself could do more in its investigations of Emile Griffith’s queerness and his feelings after killing a rival.
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