X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X

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

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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.

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  • 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.
  • Click here and enter the password MetOpera2020 for photos of X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.
  • An encore screening of Mozart's The Magic Flute from 2006 will also be presented in select cinemas on December 2.

The Met: Live in HD 2023-24 season opens with live transmission of Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking to cinemas nationwide on Saturday, October 21, presented by Fathom Events

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Wednesday, October 11, 2023
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DENVER, Oct. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Metropolitan Opera opens its 2023–24 Live in HD season with Jake Heggie's masterpiece Dead Man Walking on Saturday, October 21, at 12:55PM ET—the first of three works from recent years to be presented live in cinemas this season through Fathom Events. Based on Sister Helen Prejean's memoir, which also inspired the 1995 Oscar-winning film, the story follows Sister Helen's fight for the soul of a condemned murderer on death row. With a libretto by the late Tony and Emmy Award winner Terrence McNally, Dead Man Walking is the most widely performed new opera of the last two decades.

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  • Fathom Events will also present encores of Dead Man Walking on Wednesday, October 25, at 1:00PM and 6:30PM, local time.
  • Tickets for Dead Man Walking are on sale through the Fathom Events website and participating theater box offices.
  • Gary Halvorson will direct the Live in HD presentation for cinemas, with Grammy Award–winning musician, MacArthur recipient, and Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens serving as host.
  • Content Advisory: Dead Man Walking contains a depiction of a rape and murder, as well as other adult themes and strong language.

The Met: Live in HD 2023-24 Season Features Nine Performances Transmitted Live from the Metropolitan Opera Stage to Cinemas Nationwide through Fathom Events

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Wednesday, September 27, 2023
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Tickets are on sale through Fathom Events or participating theater box offices.

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  • Tickets are on sale through Fathom Events or participating theater box offices.
  • In addition to Fathom's live Saturday transmissions, encore screenings of each opera will be shown in theaters on Wednesdays, with presentations in both the afternoon and evening.
  • Bernheim will also be making his first Live in HD appearance in Roméo et Juliette.
  • All performances will be Saturday matinees transmitted live from the Met stage.

MALCOLM X OPERA BUILDS MOMENTUM IN OMAHA

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Friday, September 30, 2022
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Omaha, Nebraska, Sept. 30, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X

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  • Omaha, Nebraska, Sept. 30, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X
    The Omaha born, iconic leader, Malcolm X, is getting a lot of attention right now.
  • Serendipitously, this November, Opera Omaha will produce the opera X, the Life and Times of Malcolm X, by Anthony Davis and Thulani Davis, which has been co-produced with the countys leading opera companies and will be performed in Omaha before going to the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
  • In just two years, the production will be presented by its five co-producers: Detroit Opera, Opera Omaha, the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Seattle Opera.
  • New Production co-produced with Detroit Opera, Opera Omaha, The Metropolitan Opera, Seattle Opera, and Lyric Opera of Chicago