Although there is something of a trend for contemporary opera composers to write biopic operas, such as Philip Glass’s Trilogy including Akhnaten, Satyagraha and Einstein on the Beach, Anthony Davis’s X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X took on the challenge of dealing with an entire biography. Key moments that shaped and changed Malcolm Little’s life are presented as a series of vignettes, where time is fluid and years pass in moments, enabling the whole story to exist in an opera that lasts two and a half hours.
The opera was originally developed for the American Music Theatre Festival,
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