Malcolm X by Thulani Davis5/11/2023 Kazem Abdullah conducts the newly revised score, which provides a layered, jazz-inflected setting for the esteemed writer Thulani Davis’s libretto. Baritone Will Liverman, who triumphed in the Met premiere of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, sings Malcolm X, 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. An exceptional cast of breakout artists and young Met stars enliven the operatic retelling of the civil rights leader’s life. 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. Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera, which premiered in 1986, arrives at in cinemas on November 18.
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