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The Metropolitan Opera: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

4.5(2)20233h 55m1

Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera, which premiered in 1986, arrives at the Met at long last. Theater luminary and Tony-nominated director of Slave Play Robert O’Hara oversees a potent new staging that imagines Malcolm as an everyman whose story transcends time and space. An exceptional cast of breakout artists and young Met stars enliven the operatic retelling of the civil rights leader’s life. Baritone Will Liverman, who triumphed in the Met premiere of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, is Malcolm, alongside soprano Leah Hawkins as his mother, Louise; mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis as his sister Ella; bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as his brother Reginald; and tenor Victor Ryan Robertson as 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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  • malcom x
  • the metropolitan opera

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  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical (limited)NRThe Metropolitan Opera Live in HD Broadcast18 Nov 2023
  • Dominican RepublicDO

    • Theatrical18 Nov 2023
  • South KoreaKR

    • TheatricalAll19 Feb 2024

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The Metropolitan Opera: The Life and Times of Malcolm X was released on 18 November 2023.

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