OperaOpera🎭"blown away by the talent of the performers"
🎵Rhiannon Giddens blends gospel, West African rhythms, and opera
📖Based on the real memoir of Omar ibn Said, written in Arabic in 1831
A Pulitzer Prize-winning opera brings the true story of Omar ibn Said to life: a 19th-century Islamic scholar stolen into slavery whose Arabic memoir survived against all odds. Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels fuse gospel, West African rhythms, and opera into something entirely new.
Pulitzer Prize winner
world premiere
Rhiannon Giddens
Islamic scholar story
OperaOpera🎭"blown away by the talent of the performers"
🎵Rhiannon Giddens blends gospel, West African rhythms, and opera
📖Based on the real memoir of Omar ibn Said, written in Arabic in 1831
A Pulitzer Prize-winning opera brings the true story of Omar ibn Said to life: a 19th-century Islamic scholar stolen into slavery whose Arabic memoir survived against all odds. Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels fuse gospel, West African rhythms, and opera into something entirely new.
Pulitzer Prize winner
world premiere
Rhiannon Giddens
Islamic scholar story
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