📜 Overview:
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.
🌏 Languages Available:
English
📆 Date Released:
2023-11-18
⌚ Running Time:
235 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
4.5
Beloved Cast
Louise/Betty
Leah Hawkins
Ella / Queen Mother
Raehann Bryce-Davis
Elijah/Street
Victor Ryan Robertson
Malcolm
Will Liverman
Reginald
Michael Sumuel
Host
Angela Bassett
Young Malcolm
Bryce Christian Thompson
