Teddy Abrams, the director of the Louisville Orchestra, tells us why The Greatest – his ‘opera-rap-oratorio mashup’ – is the perfect way to tell the story of the local legend who changed boxing and America for ever
Among the many tributes to Muhammad Ali – books, films, documentaries, exhibitions and plays – an immersive orchestral experience might be one of the least expected. But in Louisville, Kentucky, the boxer’s birthplace, the ambitious young maestro who leads the Louisville Orchestra has found his muse.
Dressed in black jeans and T-shirt, with curly hair and black-framed glasses, 30-year-old Teddy Abrams seems unfazed by the challenge of setting the life and times of Louisville’s most famous son to music. His ambitious new work The Greatest: Muhammad Ali will mix music, poetry, narration and dance into what he calls “a 90-minute opera-rap-oratorio mashup”. Abrams has written both the libretto and music.
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