X: The life of Malcolm X
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Met Opera in HD

X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

Anthony Davis
November 18, 2023

This event occurred as part of the 23/24 Art On Screen season. This is an archived view.

A spectacular imagining of Malcolm X as a figure who transcends space and time.

X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X: Trailer

 

Anthony Davis's groundbreaking opera, which premiered in 1986, arrives at the Met at long last. Robert O'Hara, who was nominated for a Tony Award in 2020 for his direction of Slave Play, oversees a new staging that imagines Malcolm as an everyman whose story transcends time and space. A cast of breakout artists take part in the operatic retelling of Malcolm X's life. Baritone Will Liverman, who triumphed in the Met premiere of Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones, sings Malcolm. Soprano Leah Hawkins plays his mother, Louise; mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis is his sister Ella; bass-baritone Michael Sumuel is his brother Reginald; and tenor Victor Ryan Robertson is the Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad. Kazem Abdullah conducts the newly revised score, which provides a layered, jazz-inflected setting for the esteemed writer Thulani Davis's libretto.

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