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

The Metropolitan Opera: The Life and Times of Malcolm X Synopsis

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.

The Metropolitan Opera: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (2023) is a music, history and tv movie film directed by Robert O'Hara, released on November 18, 2023 with a runtime of 3h 55m. It stars Leah Hawkins, Raehann Bryce-Davis, Victor Ryan Robertson and Will Liverman. Viewers rate it 4.5 out of 10 across 2 ratings.