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January 3, 2024

Seattle Opera

The opera X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X will receive its West Coast premiere at Seattle Opera February 24–March 9, following critically acclaimed performances at Detroit Opera, Opera Omaha, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York. It was written in 1986 by composer Anthony Davis and librettist Thulani Davis to a story by Christopher Davis.

The production continues Seattle Opera's commitment to telling vital, modern-day stories by living American artists, joining A Thousand Splendid Suns ('23), Bound ('23), Blue ('22), Flight ('21), Charlie Parker's Yardbird ('20), The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs ('19), and The Falling and the Rising ('19) in just the last five years.

The opera puts a spotlight on crucial moments in Malcolm X's spiritual and political life through a series of vignettes, following the iconic figure from his interrupted childhood in Lansing, Michigan, to his tragic murder in Harlem, New York. The score, by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis, fuses elements of modernism, minimalism, and jazz, producing a sound world that is unmistakably individual.




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