Float like a butterfly, sing like a soprano ... how Muhammad Ali's epic life became an opera

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 everAmong 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 maest