The Met: Live in HD 2023-24: X: The Life and Times

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Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera, which premiered in 1986 arrives on Palace Nova Cinema screens. 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.

Rating: E

Runtime: 202 mins

Director: Robert O'Hara

Actors: Will Liverman, Leah Hawkins, Raehann Bryce-Davis, Michael Sumuel, Victor Ryan Robertson

Session Times

Eastend Cinemas

Sun, Dec 3:

11:30

Tue, Dec 5:

13:00

Wed, Dec 6:

18:30

Prospect Cinemas

No sessions running at Prospect this week

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