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How Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels turned an enslaved man's narrative into an opera
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoOmar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar from Senegal, wrote an autobiography in 1831 about how he was...
Commentary: Redemption, writ large, in L.A. Opera's divine 'Omar'
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years ago“Omar,” the new opera by composers Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, finds its strength in the simplicity of prayer. The work, which is too fluid to be classified in discrete musical or dramatic ...