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Anthony Davis: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X review – a neglected opera returns to urgent life

The libretto may creak a little but the Berg-influenced orchestral writing and jazzy solos are powerful in this performance of a historically significant work

The Guardian - UK · Nov 3, 2022

Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Davis revives ‘X,’ his prescient 1986 opera about Malcolm X: ‘A tragic hero’

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.

Tribune News Service · May 3, 2022