![]() He has written screenplays for Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, and Jon Avnet. He is the recipient of the NAACP Best Director Award and the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play. Seattle Opera’s creative team will include Maestro Kazem Abdullah ( Tosca) and stage director Robert O’Hara, an award-winning American playwright and director. In 1992, she received a Grammy Award for her album notes on Aretha Franklin’s Queen of Soul-The Atlantic Recordings, becoming the first female recipient of this award. Thulani Davis (Anthony Davis’s cousin) is a playwright, librettist, journalist, novelist, poet, and screenwriter. As a composer, I am thrilled to help create X as an opera for today that speaks to the future as well as the past.” He is an inspiration for Black Lives Matter and the movement for social justice. His vision is as prescient today as it was in 1986. Malcolm X (el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz) is an even more relevant figure today. In the early 1960s he articulated concepts of race pride and Black Nationalism that still resonate today.Īnthony Davis expounds, “It has been 35 years since the premiere of X, and I am eager to work with the extraordinary director Robert O'Hara on this new production that will feature a new generation of artists. Thulani Davis’s libretto marks important milestones in Malcolm X’s life and his role as an African American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam. The piece premiered at New York City Opera in 1986 and is based on the writings of Christopher Davis. X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X Creative Team: Anthony Davis, Thulani Davis, Maestro Kazem Abdullah, Robert O’Haraįor the 2023/24 season, Seattle Opera co-produces a new staging of X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, composed by Anthony Davis. I am thrilled to join Seattle Opera to bring Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns to the opera stage.” There has never been a more important time for this story to be taking the stage and shared with American audiences. Afghanistan’s women have shown strength and resilience in the face of war and an ever-changing political environment. Sadat explains her passion for the brand-new opera production in this way, “The locations in this novel are near to my heart I grew up in Herat and live in the Kabul neighborhood where the protagonists, Mariam and Laila, lives intersect. Her latest film, Letter to the President, (2017) was Afghanistan’s foreign-language Academy Awards submission. Following the 2001 fall of the Taliban regime Sadat produced her first feature film, Three Dots, to critical acclaim, making her the first woman film director in the post-Taliban era. Kitsakos is a noted librettist, stage director, scholar, and educator. Hailed as a "visionary" (Wetterauer Zeitung), Silver’s compositions have been commissioned and performed by numerous chamber ensembles and orchestras. American conductor Viswa Subbaraman ( Flight) leads the orchestra. Internationally praised Afghan film producer and director Roya Sadat directs this world-premiere production. Award winning composer Sheila Silver and librettist Stephen Kitsakos adapted Hosseini’s New York Times best-seller for the opera stage. Set against Afghanistan’s volatile history, A Thousand Splendid Suns tells the breathtaking story of two Afghan women. The following season Seattle Opera, in partnership with Michigan Opera Theater, Opera Omaha, and The Metropolitan Opera, produces a brand-new staging of X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X by Pulitzer Prize award-winning composer Anthony Davis.Ī Thousand Splendid Suns Creative Team: Khaled Hosseini, Sheila Silver, Stephen Kitsakos, Roya Sadat, Viswa Subbaraman ![]() In February 2023, Seattle Opera presents the world premiere of its latest commission- A Thousand Splendid Suns based on author Khaled Hosseini’s 2007 award-winning novel of the same name. Seattle Opera continues its commitment to bringing contemporary stories to Seattle audiences with two new operas for the 2022//24 seasons. Commission of A Thousand Splendid Suns in 2022/23.Ĭo-production X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X for 2023/24.
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