X: The Life & Times of Malcolm X
$35-$359
- Leah Hawkins, soprano (Louise/Betty)
- Ronnita Miller, mezzo-soprano (Ella/Queen Mother)
Activist. Orator. Husband. Leader. One of the most misunderstood figures in US history, Malcolm X was an icon of the civil rights movement. Get to know the man through a series of biographical vignettes that follow Malcolm X from his interrupted childhood in Lansing, Michigan to his tragic murder in Harlem. With a score by Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Anthony Davis (Central Park Five) that fuses elements of modernism, minimalism, and jazz, X produces a sound world that is unmistakably individual.
Kenneth Kellogg and Joshua Stewart return to McCaw Hall as Malcolm and Elijah/Street in this "riveting and uncompromising work" (The New Yorker) that is being restored to the operatic canon in a coproduction with Detroit Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera Omaha, and The Metropolitan Opera.
Music by Anthony Davis; libretto by Thulani Davis; story by Christopher Davis.