Organization

Stage director

Kaneza Schaal

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Cierra Byrd

Omar's Mother

Neal Ferreira

Auctioneer

Soprano

Emma Sorenson

Little Daughter

Catherine Daniel

Katie Ellen

Baritone

Nicholas La Gesse

Omar's Brother

Fred C. VanNess Jr.

Amadou - Renty

Lighting designer

Lucrecia Briceno

Conductor

Michael Ellis Ingram

Lauren Michelle

Julie Laquita

Set designer

Amy Rubin

Costume designer

April M. Hickman

Micheline Russell-Brown

Video designer

Joshua Higgason

Chorus master

Jeremy Frank

Choreographer

Kiara Benn

Tenor

Jamez McCorkle

Omar Ibn Said

Bass-baritone

Daniel Okulitch

John Owen

Christopher Myers

Christopher Humbert Jr.

Olufemi

Christon Carney

Katie Suleiman

Boston Lyric Opera

English

Omar

Boston

United States

Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre

Omar Rhiannon Giddens

Public

Private

Approved

Cutler Majestic Theater

"Divine... Omar lives again, thanks to the unconquerable power of his words, now borne aloft by the music of history." - The Los Angeles Times.In 1807, a 37-...

Rhiannon Giddens - Julie's Aria (Official Audio)

In 1807, 37-year-old Omar Ibn Said was made to board a ship bound for Charleston, South Carolina—the site of his enslavement and sale. Created by Giddens, the Grammy Award-winning musician and MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient and Abels, composer of the score to the Oscar-nominated film Get Out, this New England premiere narrates Said’s 1831 autobiography, beginning from his childhood and ending some 30 years before he was laid to rest. This record of his life and Muslim faith reveals a refusal to be defined or erased by his captors. It’s a seminal work of strength, resistance, and religious conviction—a work underscoring the indelible power of the written word.

Omar by Giddens, From (2023/2023), Directed by Kaneza Schaal,, Conductor Michael Ellis Ingram, Cutler Majestic Theater, Boston, United States

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