Orcas Center presents on the Center Stage Screen:

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

Content Advisory: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X contains strong language.
Tuesday,  January 30th at 12pm
Runtime: 3 hours 20 minutes with intermission
Tiered Ticket Pricing: $63, $33, $18, $10
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X: The Life and Times of  Malcolm X 

Content Advisory: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X contains strong language.
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“True staying power … Its unbroken flow from genre to genre [is] AS GRACEFUL AS ANYTHING IN OPERA … Speaks to contemporary life … Dreams of a better future … Has the opportunity to become what is always should have been: AN AMERICAN CLASSIC.” —The New York Times

“Not just a THOUGHT-PROVOKING show, it is also highly entertaining. YOU MUST GO SEE MALCOLM X.” —MSNBC 

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, 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.

Anthony Davis’s first opera, X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X dramatizes the life of the civil rights icon, but rather than explain, let alone beatify, its subject, the work is primarily focused on his personal transformation. It is also the journey of his audience and how they have perceived him, from victim of poverty to leader-agitator to martyr. Neither the music nor the libretto seeks to console nor superficially inspire, but always to engage and intrigue.