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Experience Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking opera directed by Tony nominee Robert O’Hara. The new staging portrays Malcolm as an Everyman whose story transcends time and space. Supported by a cast of young Met stars, Will Liverman sings Malcolm X. The score for this biographical drama is not unlike its central figure: complex, challenging, and undeniably compelling.
Experience Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking opera directed by Tony nominee Robert O’Hara. The new staging portrays Malcolm as an Everyman whose story transcends time and space. Supported by a cast of young Met stars, Will Liverman sings Malcolm X.
Will Liverman performs as Malcolm X in '’We’re not askin’ Massa to sit at a lunch counter," an act II aria from "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X."
Related: The Making of Malcolm
Related: Mothership Connection
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Will Liverman as Malcolm and Victor Ryan Robertson as Eljah in Anthony Davis's "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X."
Marty Sohl / Met Opera
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Victor Ryan Robertson as Eljah and Will Liverman as Malcolm in Anthony Davis's "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X."
Marty Sohl / Met Opera
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Will Liverman as Malcolm in a scene from Anthony Davis's "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X."
Marty Sohl / Met Opera
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Will Liverman as Malcolm in Anthony Davis's "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X."
Marty Sohl / Met Opera
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A scene from Anthony Davis's "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X."
Marty Sohl / Met Opera
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Victor Ryan Robertson as Street and Bryce Christian Thompson as Young Malcolm in Anthony Davis's "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X."
Marty Sohl / Met Opera
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A scene from Anthony Davis's "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X."
Marty Sohl / Met Opera
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