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From June 23 through 25, 2022, Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), CalArts' center for contemporary arts in downtown Los Angeles, proudly presents KLII, the new work from award-winning theater-maker and 2021 Guggenheim Fellow Kaneza Schaal.
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.
Spoleto Festival USA premieres 'Omar' after a two year, pandemic-related delay. The opera shares the story of a Muslim scholar from Senegal who was sold into slavery in Charleston and wrote the only known autobiography by a slave in Arabic in America.