American composer Jake Heggie’s compelling masterpiece about a condemned murderer gets a haunting new production by Ivo van Hove.
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X: The Life and Times of Malcom X
Anthony Davis / Libretto by Thulani Davis
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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 Bonesis Malcolm, alongside soprano Leah Hawkins as his mother, Louise; mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis as his sister Ella; bassbaritone 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.
Kazem Abdullah
PRODUCTION
Robert O’Hara
SET DESIGNER
Clint Ramos
COSTUME DESIGNER
Dede Ayite
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Alex Jainchill
PROJECTION DESIGNER
Yee Eun Nam
CHOREOGRAPHER
Rickey Tripp
STORY
Christopher Davis
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$34 for screening + discussion ($29 for BAM & Met members).
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