Stage on Screen

Met Opera Live: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

Stage on Screen is The Roxy’s ongoing series of the world’s greatest contemporary theatrical performances, from the Metropolitan Opera to London’s National Theatre to the Bolshoi Ballet and beyond, projected on the big screen.

Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera, which premiered in 1986, arrives at in cinemas on November 18. 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, 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. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.


Content Advisory: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X contains strong language.
Cast: Will Liverman, Victor Ryan Robinson, Leah Hawkins, Raehann Bryce-Davis
Director: Robert O'Hara
Written by: Thulani Davis
Duration: 200 min
Genre: Drama
Music: Anthony Davis

Stage on Screen

Met Opera Live: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

Met Opera Live: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X