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

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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.

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• Leah Hawkins

  Louise/Betty

• Raehann Bryce-Davis

  Ella / Queen Mother

• Victor Ryan Robertson

  Elijah/Street

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  Will Liverman

  Malcolm

• Michael Sumuel

  Reginald

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  Angela Bassett

  Host

• Bryce Christian Thompson

  Young Malcolm

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Robert O'Hara

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Thulani Davis

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Christopher Davis