More and more, stupendous operas such as Omar, the 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winner, are taking us on real-life journeys through America, many of those journeys unspeakably sad yet somehow uplifting.
Omar and The Central Park Five, another Black-focused opera that won a Pulitzer in 2020, have created musical and visual languages that expand opera's voice and vocabulary, and shine a light on the survival of humanity despite bondage, extraordinary pain and injustice.
The 2-hour-and-50-minute two-act opera, including an intermission, is about 19th-century Islamic scholar, Omar ibn Said, who was a real man, if a somewhat artistically altered person in this opera.
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