The Met: Live in HD 2023-24 season continues with live transmission of Anthony Davis's groundbreaking opera X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X to cinemas nationwide on Saturday, November 18, presented by Fathom Events
DENVER, Nov. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Metropolitan Opera's 2023–24 Live in HD season continues with the company premiere of Anthony Davis's X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X on Saturday, November 18, at 12:55PM ET via Fathom Events. The influential opera, which had its world premiere in 1986, is newly staged by Tony-nominated director of Slave Play Robert O'Hara, who imagines Malcolm as an Everyman whose story transcends space and time. With a libretto by Thulani Davis and story by Christopher Davis, the opera explores how one man's fight to define his life on his own terms becomes a battle cry for justice for an entire people.
- Fathom Events will also present two encores of Anthony Davis's X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X on Wednesday, November 29 at 1:00PM and 6:30PM local time.
- Tickets for Anthony Davis's X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X are on sale through the Fathom Events website and participating theater box offices.
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- An encore screening of Mozart's The Magic Flute from 2006 will also be presented in select cinemas on December 2.