After 138 years, a lost opera by the Black American composer Edmond Dédé finally gets its world premiere — and a performance ...
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One of the Oldest Surviving Operas by a Black American Composer Will Be Performed for the First Time—138 Years After It Was WrittenEdmond Dédé's 1887 magnum opus "Morgiane"—billed as "the most important opera never heard"—will finally get its premiere ...
Almost 125 years after Edmond Dédé’s death, his magnum opus “Morgiane,” perhaps the oldest existing opera by a Black American ...
Edmond Dédé’s 'Morgiane'" in four cities across the U.S. including New Orleans, Washington, DC, New York City, and College ...
New Orleans-born composer Edmond Dédé's opera 'Morgiane' was lost for more than 130 years. The earliest known opera by a Black American composer finally finds life on stage.
Dédé was a New Orleans-born free creole of color, who composed music in the 1800s. He was born in 1827 and baptized in 1828, ...
Prolific freeborn Creole composer Edmond Dédé’s career took him from New Orleans to Paris, but his masterwork has remained ...
The version of the opera being performed in New Orleans is being scaled down to 65 minutes with no intermission. The full ...
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According to Joseph, “Morgiane” is likely the first four-act opera written by a Black American composer. Dédé was born and ...
Givonna Joseph, a mezzo-soprano who founded Opera Créole with her daughter in 2011, first encountered Morgiane in 2014 when a ...
The earliest-known, full-length opera by a Black American composer, New Orleans' own Edmond Dédé, will be performed for the ...
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