Met Opera's 2023-24 season dominated by the contemporary
New York (AFP) - The prestigious Metropolitan Opera will escalate its turn towards newer productions in its coming season, including with a staging of "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X." It's part of the 143-year-old New York institution's push to diversify its audiences that traditionally have skewed elderly and white. As it continues climbing back following the havoc the early pandemic wrought on live performance, the Met was forced to take out $23 million from its endowment, according to a report by The New York Times, and cut its total number of performances by 10 percent. But despite th...