Writing is the preservation of identity in Omar, a groundbreaking new opera from Rhiannon Giddens and composer Michael Abels—and now the winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Based on a true story, Omar follows the narrative of Islamic scholar Omar Ibn Said, who was forcibly taken from his village in West Africa and sold into slavery in Charleston, South Carolina in the early 1800s. There Omar records his story in Arabic, transforming his world into an expansive canvas of text and faith. Omar runs November 5–21. 
 
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