After 138 years, a lost opera by the Black American composer Edmond Dédé finally gets its world premiere — and a performance ...
Almost 125 years after Edmond Dédé’s death, his magnum opus “Morgiane,” perhaps the oldest existing opera by a Black American ...
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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 ...
MSNBC anchor Alex Witt corrected correspondent Priya Sridhar during her on-air report on the DEA arresting members of illegal ...
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, ...
The version of the opera being performed in New Orleans is being scaled down to 65 minutes with no intermission. The full ...
New Orleanians Givonna Joseph and Patrick Quigley were guests of honor Wednesday at a small gathering on Manhattan’s Upper ...
Prolific freeborn Creole composer Edmond Dédé’s career took him from New Orleans to Paris, but his masterwork has remained ...
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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