X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (Davis) - Nov 18 & 22

About the Opera

Tony®-nominated director Robert O’Hara presents a new staging of the 1986 premiere, envisioning Malcolm as an Everyman and transcending time as it brings the revolutionary civil rights leader’s story to life.

About the Creators and Cast

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. Kazem Abdullah conducts the newly revised score, which provides a layered, jazz-inflected setting for the esteemed writer Thulani Davis’s libretto.