Met Opera HD at Regal Cinema Returns

X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
Met opera Live
Met opera Live(fathom events)
Published: Oct. 2, 2023 at 2:22 PM EDT|Updated: Nov. 2, 2023 at 1:00 PM EDT
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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 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.

Music: Anthony Davis Language: Sung in English, with English subtitles

Content Advisory: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X contains strong language.

Regal Cinema at Salmon Run Mall

Saturday, November 18 live at 12:55 pm

Encores:

Wednesday, November 29 at 1:00 pm

A Fathom Event