Name: Omar
Start: 2022-11-09
End: 2022-11-09
Location: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

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Spoleto Festival USA

Director(a) orquestal

Kazem Abdullah

Director(a) de escena

Kaneza Schaal

Escenógrafo(a)

Amy Rubin

Diseñador(a) de vestuario/Figurinista

April M. Hickman

Micheline Russell-Brown

Diseñador(a) de video

Joshua Higgason

Cantante

Tenor

Jamez McCorkle

Omar Ibn Said

Jacqueline Echols

Julie Laquita

Bajobarítono

Daniel Okulitch

John Owen

Barítono

Norman Garrett

Omar's Brother

Barry Banks

Auctioneer

Briana Hunter

Katie Ellen

Diseñador(a) de iluminación

Pablo Santiago

Director(a) coral

Jeremy Frank

Coreógrafo(a)

Kiara Benn

Assistant choreographer

Yusuf Nasir

Christopher Myers

Mezzosoprano

Amanda Lynn Bottoms

Fatima, Omar's Mother

Soprano

Deepa Johnny

Little Daughter

Ashley Faatoalia

Amadou

Cedric Berry

Olufemi

Patrick Blackwell

Suleiman

Alan Williams

Jermaine McGhee

Principal dancer

LA Opera

inglés

Omar

Los Ángeles

Estados Unidos

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Omar Giddens

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Private

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Omar Ibn Said's life and Muslim faith are remembered and retold in this inspirational West Coast premiere inspired by his remarkable 1831 autobiography. The ...

In 1807, a 37-year-old scholar living in West Africa was captured and forced aboard a slave ship bound for Charleston, South Carolina. Omar Ibn Said's life and Muslim faith are remembered and retold in this inspirational West Coast premiere inspired by his remarkable 1831 autobiography (the only known surviving American slave narrative written in Arabic).

Set in the shifting darkness of memory and imagination, Omar follows his compelling journey from a peaceful life in his homeland to enslavement in a violent, foreign world. Lost in the wilderness of his thoughts and his stolen life, he's haunted by memories of his family and the people he encounters along the way. Through it all, he somehow remains true to himself and his faith, against all odds. The luminous score—composed by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels—incorporates distinctive West African traditions with traditional opera instrumentation.

Tenor Jamez McCorkle makes his company debut in the title role, with bass-baritone Daniel Okulitch in a double role as two very different slave masters. Norman Garrett makes his company debut as Omar's brother, with Barry Banks as the auctioneer and Jacqueline Echols as Julie, an enslaved woman who gives Omar the key to a better life.

English

Omar by Giddens, mié. 09 nov 2022, De (2022/2022), Dirigido por Kaneza Schaal,, Director Kazem Abdullah, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Ángeles, Estados Unidos

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