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Women in Emile’s life have been uniformly properly cast, and “Champion” does a better position of developing their people than in many journeys of male protagonists. In 2013, Denyce Graves created the mezzo-soprano position of Emelda, Emile’s mother, but Blanchard has because rewritten Emelda for just a soprano of about lirico-spinto heft.