Organization

Stage director

Robert O´Hara

Conductor

Gil Rose

Singer

Baritone

Adam Richardson

Malcolm

Choreographer

Rickey Tripp

Set designer

Clint Ramos

Costume designer

Dede Ayite

Lighting designer

Alex Jainchill

Tenor

Victor Ryan Robertson

Elijah/Street

Soprano

Whitney Morrison

Louise/Betty

Mezzo-soprano

Ronnita Miller

Ella

Bass-baritone

Joshua Conyers

Reginald

Karina Brazas

Social Worker

Drew Duncan

Cop/Reporter

Bernard Holcomb

Postman

Emily Mwila

Neighbor

Assistant Director

Nicholas Polonio

Video designer

Yee Eun Nam

Opera Omaha

X, the life and times of Malcolm X

Omaha

United States

Orpheum Theater

Public

Approved

X, The Life and Times of Malcolm XOpera Omaha Nov. 4 & 6, 2022ticketomaha.comVideo Credit: Micah Shumake | Detroit Opera

It has been our deepest privilege to have a partner in the Malcolm X Memorial Foundation as we prepare for X, the Life and Times of Malcolm X.

Where the story we are telling ends, is where thier work began. They continue the passion for community and the human rights legacy that Malcolm strived for right here in Omaha.

The Malcolm X Memorial Foundation

In its Midwest premiere, Anthony Davis and Thulani Davis’s distinctly American opera X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X, will be directed by Robert O’Hara, 2020 Tony Award nominee for Slave Play on Broadway. This epic new production – produced in partnership with Detroit Opera, The Metropolitan Opera in New York, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Seattle Opera – will perform for Omaha audiences first before traveling to The Met in 2023. Through a series of vignettes, X outlines the life of Malcolm X from boyhood to his assassination in 1965, discovering the past, present and future vision of “a prophet in search of a Black utopia, charting a course for the future” (O’Hara). Davis’s jazz infused, contemporary score traces the path of a figure that grasps the attention of America in biography and legacy.

English

X, the life and times of Malcolm X by Davis, Anthony, From (2022/2022), Directed by Robert O´Hara,, Conductor Gil Rose, Orpheum Theater, Omaha, United States

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Program, About & Synopsis

Videos

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Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues

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