The Metropolitan Opera: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

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The Metropolitan Opera: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (2023)

Directed by Robert O'Hara

Music, History, TV Movie · 3h 55m

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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Cast

L
Leah Hawkins Louise/Betty
R
Raehann Bryce-Davis Ella / Queen Mother
V
Victor Ryan Robertson Elijah/Street Will Liverman Malcolm
M
Michael Sumuel Reginald Angela Bassett Host
B
Bryce Christian Thompson Young Malcolm

Crew

Director
Robert O'Hara
Writer
Thulani Davis

Details

Release date
2023-11-18
Runtime
3h 55m
Genres
Music, History, TV Movie
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English