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

Anthony Davis: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X album cover

John Adams’s Nixon in China, first performed in 1987, is usually regarded as launching the concept of “CNN opera”: music-theatre works that dealt with contemporary events and recent history, often with protagonists who were still […]

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

Anthony Davis: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X album cover

John Adams’s Nixon in China, first performed in 1987, is usually regarded as launching the concept of “CNN opera”: music-theatre works that dealt with contemporary events and recent history, often with protagonists who were still […]