An Oral History with Anthony Davis

On July 13th, 2021, composer Anthony Davis sat down with OPERA America's President/CEO Marc A. Scorca for a conversation about opera and their life.
Anthony Davis is the composer of seven operas, including X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X (1986), Under the Double Moon (1989), Amistad (1997), and Wakonda’s Dream (2007). His most recent opera, The Central Park Five, which premiered at Long Beach Opera in 2019, received the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Davis is a distinguished professor of music at the University of California, San Diego.
This interview was originally recorded on July 13th, 2021.
The Oral History Project is supported by the Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation.
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