"Morgiane" is believed to be the oldest existing opera written by a Black American, but it wasn't seen by audiences until ...

After 138 years, a Black composer's magnum opus finds a stage Until recently, the music of Morgiane only existed in a single handwritten manuscript. Composer Edmond Dédé, a Black American living in ...

After leaving for France, where he lived and wrote music until his death, he flourished as a composer but never realized his dream: to perform his 1887 magnum opus, a 545-page grand opera called ...

And his grand opera “Morgiane,” his magnum opus, completed in 1887 ... including a historian, an antiquarian music dealer, two librarians, and a pair of New Orleans natives, has come together ...

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Until recently, the music of Morgiane only existed in a single handwritten manuscript. Composer Edmond Dédé, a Black American living in exile in France, completed the nearly 550-page score in 1887.

Until recently, the music of Morgiane only existed in a single handwritten manuscript. Composer Edmond Dédé, a Black American living in exile in France, completed the nearly 550-page score in 1887.