X: The Life & Times of Malcolm X
Sat, Feb 24
|McCaw Hall
Activist. Orator. Husband. Leader. One of the most misunderstood figures in US history, Malcolm X was an icon of the civil rights movement. Get to know the man through a series of biographical vignettes that follow Malcolm X from his interrupted childhood in Lansing, Michigan to...
Time & Place
Feb 24, 2024, 11:00 AM PST – Mar 04, 2024, 8:00 PM PST
McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
About the Event
Music by Anthony Davis
Libretto by Thulani Davis
Story by Christopher Davis
Activist. Orator. Husband. Leader. One of the most misunderstood figures in US history, Malcolm X was an icon of the civil rights movement. Get to know the man through a series of biographical vignettes that follow Malcolm X from his interrupted childhood in Lansing, Michigan to his tragic murder in Harlem. With a score by Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Anthony Davis (Central Park Five) that fuses elements of modernism, minimalism, and jazz, X produces a sound world that is unmistakably individual.
Kenneth Kellogg and Joshua Stewart return to McCaw Hall as Malcolm and Elijah/Street in this "riveting and uncompromising work" (The New Yorker) that is being restored to the operatic canon in a coproduction with Detroit Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera Omaha, and The Metropolitan Opera.