Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

For one night only, see Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera at the Met at Opera Live. Theater luminary and Tony-nominated director 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 sings Malcolm X, alongside soprano Leah Hawkins as his mother, Louise, along with a talented supporting cast. Kazem Abdullah conducts the newly revised score, which provides a layered, jazz-inflected setting for the esteemed writer Thulani Davis’s libretto.