Review: ‘X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X’ at the Met
“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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In Chicago, ‘Opera Can Be Hip-Hop, and Hip-Hop Can Be Opera’
Will Liverman and DJ King Rico’s “The Factotum,” at Lyric Opera of Chicago, is a gloss on “The Barber of Seville” set in a South Side barbershop.
Posted inDJ King Rico Liverman, Will Lyric Opera of Chicago Opera Rap and Hip-Hop The Barber of Seville (Opera) The Factotum (Opera)
In Chicago, ‘Opera Can Be Hip-Hop, and Hip-Hop Can Be Opera’
Will Liverman and DJ King Rico’s “The Factotum,” at Lyric Opera of Chicago, is a gloss on “The Barber of Seville” set in a South Side barbershop.
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Review: Songs That Defy the ‘Quotidian Nature of Evil’
The composer Shawn Okpebholo has created a song cycle that imagines the inner lives of fugitives from American slavery.