The New York Times – Music:
“Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote,” performed on both sides of the border, offers an allegory about migrants, immigration agents and President Trump.
Category: Davis, Anthony (1951- )
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Anthony Davis Puts His Operatic Spin on Edith Wharton
The New York Times – Music:
Anthony Davis has written operas based on recent history. But now he is adapting, and dramatically changing, Wharton’s 1912 novel “The Reef.”
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Review: ‘X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X’ at the Met
The New York Times – Music:
“X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” from 1986, receives its grandest treatment yet, in a production expected to play on opera stages from coast to coast.
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A Malcolm X Opera Is Coming to the Met
The New York Times – Music:
Anthony, Christopher and Thulani Davis collaborated on “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” which has its Metropolitan Opera premiere on Friday.
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The Met Opera Puts On a Malcolm X Marathon
The New York Times – Music:
Ahead of its new production of Anthony Davis’s “X,” the house hosted a starry, 18-hour reading of Malcolm X’s autobiography.
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North Carolina Radio Station Won’t Ban Met Opera Broadcasts After All
The New York Times – Music:
The station, which had called the Met’s newer operas unsuitable because of their “difficult music” and “adult themes and harsh language,” reversed course.
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America Needs Its Own Comic Opera Company
The New York Times – Music:
There is no house in the United States dedicated to presenting works from a prominent corner of homegrown music theater repertory.
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Abdul Wadud, Cellist Who Crossed Musical Boundaries, Dies at 75
The New York Times – Music:
He worked with classical ensembles, but he was best known for his work with cutting-edge composers and improvisers like Anthony Davis and Julius Hemphill.
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Review: After 36 Years, a Malcolm X Opera Sings to the Future
The New York Times – Music:
Anthony Davis’s “X” has stretches of incantation that, in person, turn it into something like a sacred rite.