Organization

Conductor

Kazem Abdullah

Stage director

Robert O´Hara

Set designer

Clint Ramos

Costume designer

Dede Ayite

Video designer

Yee Eun Nam

Singer

Baritone

Kenneth Kellogg

Malcolm

Soprano

Leah Hawkins

Louise/Betty

Mezzo-soprano

Ronnita Miller

Ella

Lighting designer

Alex Jainchill

Choreographer

Rickey Tripp

Assistant Director

Melanie Bacaling

Bass-baritone

Joshua Conyers

Reginald

Seattle Opera

Child vocalist

Rex Walker

Young Malcolm Little

Jace Johnson

Allison Pohl

Social Worker

Reporter 1

Chad DeMaris

Ibidunni Ojikutu

Neighbor

Ensemble

Ellaina Lewis

Olivia Johnson

Chantelle Grant

Robert Mack

Elliott Paige

Nathan Rodriguez

Chase Taylor

Wayne Arthur

Richard L. Hodges

Brandon Coleman

Edwin Jhamaal Davis

Postman

Friend

Reporter 2

Joshua Stewart

Elijah

Street

Associate Director

Nicholas Polonio

Sound designer

Robertson Witmer

Makeup artist

Ashlee Naegle

Hairstylist

Dorse Brown

Dancers

Christopher Jackson

Jay Staten

Cordé Young

Mikhail Calliste

Queen Mother

Garvey Preacher

Orchestra

Seattle Symphony

English

X, the life and times of Malcolm X

Seattle

United States

McCaw Hall

Public

Approved

X, the life and times of Malcolm X Davis,A

Opera is grand. Opera is big, and opera tells epic stories traditionally, and the journey of Malcolm X's life is as epic of a story as anyone that I think is in the traditional repertoire."
 
Kenneth Kellogg, who plays Malcolm X in our upcoming production of X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, talks about why telling Malcolm X's story as an opera can change our understanding of him, and important aspects of this historic leader we might come away with after the curtain closes. 
 
X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X opens February 24 and runs through March 9 at McCaw Hall. 
Learn more and buy tickets: https://www.seattleopera.org/x
 
Pianist: Donald Lee III

X, the life and times of Malcolm X Davis, Anthony

Music by Anthony Davis; Libretto by Thulani Davis; Story by Christopher Davis

Activist. Orator. Husband. Leader. One of the most misunderstood figures in US history, Malcolm X was an icon of the civil rights movement. Get to know the man through a series of biographical vignettes that follow Malcolm X from his interrupted childhood in Lansing, Michigan to his tragic murder in Harlem. With a score by Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Anthony Davis (Central Park Five) that fuses elements of modernism, minimalism, and jazz, X produces a sound world that is unmistakably individual.

Kenneth Kellogg and Joshua Stewart return to McCaw Hall as Malcolm and Elijah/Street in this "riveting and uncompromising work" (The New Yorker) that is being restored to the operatic canon in a coproduction with Detroit Opera, Opera Omaha, and The Metropolitan Opera.

X, the life and times of Malcolm X by Davis, Anthony, From (2024/2024), Directed by Robert O´Hara,, Conductor Kazem Abdullah, McCaw Hall, Seattle, United States

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