SAN DIEGO — Serendipity and irony. Foresight and hindsight. A handwritten musical score giving way to a software program. A pandemic giving way to a rebirth.
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis is acutely aware of the key roles timing, technology, fate and the devastating COVID-19 pandemic have played in bringing back to life his first opera, 1986’s groundbreaking “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.”
“It’s beyond serendipitous,” said Davis of his opera’s unexpected resurrection, 36 years after its debut.
