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Will Liverman Leads Metropolitan Opera’s ‘X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X’

By Francisco Salazar
(Credit: Zenith Richards / Met Opera)

The Metropolitan Opera is set to present the company premiere of Anthony Davis’s “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.”

The opera will open on Nov. 3 and will be conducted by Kazem Abdullah in a newly revised score, which features a layered, jazz-inflected setting. The opera will star baritone Will Liverman, soprano Leah Hawkins, mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis, bass-baritone Michael Sumuel, and tenor Victor Ryan Robertson.

Robert O’Hara will direct the production which will be performed through Dec. 2.

The Met opera will be broadcast on Nov. 3, 14, and 24 live on Metropolitan Opera Radio on Sirius XM channel 355. It will also be featured in the company live in HD series on Nov. 18.

 

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By Francisco Salazar

FRANCISCO SALAZAR, (Publisher) worked as a reporter for Latin Post where he has had the privilege of interviewing numerous opera stars including Anita Rachvelishvili and Ailyn Perez. He also worked as an entertainment reporter where he covered the New York and Tribeca Film Festivals and interviewed many celebrities such as Antonio Banderas, Edgar Ramirez and Benedict Cumberbatch. He currently freelances for Remezcla.

He holds a Masters in Media Management from the New School and a Bachelor's in Film Production and Italian studies from Hofstra University.

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