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In 2022, composers Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels brought a true story to the opera stage: the life of Omar Ibn Said, a Senegalese Muslim scholar who was enslaved and brought to the Carolinas. This week, it won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
LOS ANGELES Don’t forget, George and Ira Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess started out on Broadway. Though it still occasionally shows up on theatrical stages, nowadays you’re more likely to see it in an opera house.
Composers Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels have brought a true story to the opera stage: the life of Omar Ibn Said, a Senegalese Muslim scholar who was enslaved and brought to the Carolinas.