Omar ibn Said wrote the only known autobiography in Arabic of an enslaved person in the United States. Here is his life, in art and history. The new work, co-written by folk artist Rhiannon Giddens ...

North Carolina might be more closely associated with the Grand Ole Opry than with grand opera. This year, however, Greensboro native Rhiannon Giddens shared the Pulitzer Prize for music for her opera ...

It is the true story of an enslaved man who wrote his memoirs in Arabic for future generations to read. 'Omar': Opera based on the true story of an enslaved man shatters myths This segment was ...

Mbaye Lo‘s new book on Omar Ibn Said follows two decades of sharing his life story This was a story too remarkable to stay in the classroom and academic journals. For nearly two decades, Duke ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The image projected onto the curtain as audience members file into UNC’s Memorial Hall for the staging of the opera “Omar” is so faint at first it looks like shadows made by folds ...

The opera “OMAR,” which gets its New England debut with the Boston Lyric Opera on Thursday night, tells the true story of Omar ibn Said, an Islamic scholar in the 19th century who was captured, ...