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...But they have followed their recent production of Jake Heggie’s hard-hitting Dead Man Walking with another operatic take on the modern world, Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X....
...All this is good, and there’s a particularly strong performance from Aaron Anthony as Macduff: his agony at hearing of his family’s fate is harrowing....
...When Anthony Davis’s opera X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X had its premiere at the New York State Theater in 1986, the time was not yet right....
...Victor Ryan Robertson deals ably with the high-lying tenor roles of Elijah Muhammad and Street, a petty crook....
...The plot still grips, however, and Holly Race Roughan’s staging (a co-production with Headlong and the Lowry) is peppered with good performances, not least from Anthony Calf as a thoroughly likeable but...
...Elijah Cummings, the lead Democrat on the committee that held the hearings, countered that House Republicans had cut the state department’s security budget in 2011 and 2012....
...Replacing Aleksandrs Antonenko, Anthony Dean Griffey sang the tenor arias strongly and sweetly, even when his tone lost focus....
...So whatever happened to the Richards and Roberts, the Michaels and Peters, the Simons, the Williams and the Anthonys?...
...Anthony Michaels-Moore’s Conte di Luna was at his impressive best in the generously lyrical singing of his aria. That left the soprano Catherine Naglestad as the evening’s weakest link....
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