Review: S F Opera s Omar offers a vague, unfocused portrait of American slavery and its legacy sfchronicle.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sfchronicle.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Pulitzer-winning opera based on the true story of Omar ibn Said, an Islamic scholar who was abducted from his West African village and sold into slavery in Charleston, S.C.
A concert staging of Joby Talbot’s opera by the BBC Symphony, complete with singers climbing blocks on stage, finds greatest drama in the terrible facts of the disaster it portrays