An opera about civil rights leader Malcolm X opens Friday — nearly 40 years after X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X premiered. The creative team says its message feels more relevant than ever.
X: The Life and Times of Malcolm XAn opera about Malcolm X will open Friday night at New York's Metropolitan Opera — 37 years after it first premiered. The opera's creative team says although nearly four decades have passed sinceMalcolm X's life – and his assassination in 1965 at age 39 – still loom large in popular consciousness.
"It's just the energy — it never settles at any point; it's always kind of in the forefront," Liverman notes."And it really represents Malcolm's story — lots of turmoil and transformations. There is nothing that was just kind of even-keeled throughout. He was always evolving and changing."is still an opera — there's time to breathe and for both the characters and the audience to metabolize their feelings.
Robert O'Hara has thought a lot about what it means to bring this particular story into the Met — and what the real Malcolm X might think about having his life portrayed at such a high temple of European art. (is only the second opera by a Black composer to be presented at the Met; the first time was only two years ago, with Terence Blanchard'sO'Hara says he had little interest in putting a straight biography of Malcolm X on stage.
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