“You realize that he’s telling you far more with his choices of Quranic verses,” says musician Rhiannon Giddens ... the Los Angeles Opera on Saturday. It helped that Giddens, 45, studied ...

By Mesfin Fekadu Grammy-winning singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens was taking ... Omar is the first opera both Giddens and Abels were fully immersed in.

In 2023, Rhiannon Giddens won a Pulitzer Prize for her opera Omar, about Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar in Africa sold into slavery and forcefully brought to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1807.

Rhiannon Giddens co-composed and wrote the libretto for the opera “Omar,” chronicling the life of Omar ibn Said. Rhiannon Giddens won a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for "Omar," an opera she co-composed ...

Rhiannon Giddens' new album You're the One has been ... In May, Giddens won a Pulitzer Prize for Music for Omar, an opera co-written with Michael Abels. It's based on the autobiography of Omar ...

Rhiannon Giddens is maxed out ... The Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, banjo player, children’s author, actor, opera composer is, indeed, saying no to more and more potential opportunities ...

Abels then orchestrated the score by Giddens, whose opera deftly draws from gospel, blues, spirituals, ragtime, Senegalese music, opera traditions and more. “Rhiannon has such a unique ...

Rhiannon Giddens & the Old-Time Revue will ... a few years back she decided that she would try her hand at composing an opera. Giddens and Michael Abel cowrote “Omar” about a Muslim African ...

Singer-Musician Rhiannon Giddens Calls off Kennedy Center Show ... In 2022, she helped write the Pulitzer Prize winning opera “Omar.” She is also a recipient of a MacArthur “Genius ...