How do you get a mainstream audience to try the opera? Stage a boxing match with punches, spit buckets and an MC.
| Photographs by Amir Hamja for The Wall Street JournalNEW 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.
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