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Performers tpart in a dress rehearsal of "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X" at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on October 31, 2023. A mesmerizing musical biography of civil rights leader Malcolm X infusing history with Afrofuturism will open at New York's Metropolitan Opera on November 3, 2023. It's a long time coming: "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X" first premiered in the mid-1980s to favorable reviews from critics, but went unrevived for decades, with just a few stagings over nearly 40 years. Its Met debut features a revised, jazz-infused score from composer Anthony Davis, Thulani Davis' libretto and direction from the Tony-nominated director Robert O'Hara, who worked on the acclaimed "Slave Play." (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)