Metropolitan Opera Summer HD Festival - Anthony Davis's X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
Friday, August 30, 2024 at 07:30pm
Metropolitan Opera Summer HD Festival
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza
The Met’s 15th Summer HD Festival features ten thrilling performances from the company’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions-plus a special screening of the Oscar-winning film The Red Violin, co-presented with Film at Lincoln Center. The showings run nightly, with approximately 3,000 seats set up in front of the opera house, as well as additional standing room in designated areas around Lincoln Center Plaza.
The Met’s HD Festival presentations will include full open captions.
Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
Baritone Will Liverman portrays Malcolm X in Anthony Davis’s explosive contemporary drama, leading a powerful Afrofuturism-inspired staging by Robert O’Hara.
Original transmission: November 18, 2023
Approximate running time: 2 hours, 45 minutes
