Champion: An Opera in Jazz
Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts 1419 Basin Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70116
New Orleans opera presents Terence Blanchard's Champion. Billed as "an opera in jazz," the show tells the story of Emile Griffith, a welterweight world champion boxer whose career was complicated by his bisexuality and the in-ring death of one of his opponents during a ferocious championship bout. $26–$225. 8 pm Friday, 2:30 pm Sunday. neworleansopera.org.