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Dédé’s “Morgiane” proves a lightweight disappointment in belated world premiere
Mary Elizabeth Williams stars in the world premiere of Edmond Dédé’s Morgiane, presented by Opera Lafayette Monday night. Photo: Jennifer Packard/Opera Lafayette In most seasons Opera Lafayette ...
Huang Ruo’s `The Monkey King’ to get world premiere at San Francisco Opera on Nov. 14
Huang Ruo’s “The Monkey King,” based on an episode from the 16th century Chinese novel “Journey to the West” in which a ...
First Opera Created By A Black Composer To Officially Debut Nearly 140 Years Later
Edmond Dédé composed Morgiane 138 years ago, but his racial identity prevented the opera from receiving proper staging.
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He's the first Black American to compose a full opera. It's finally being staged after 138 years
For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans' famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the chapel filled ...
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Forgotten for 138 years, a Black composer's magnum opus finds a stage
Composer Edmond Dédé, a Black American living in exile in France, completed the nearly 550-page score in 1887. But the ...
Opera Philadelphia pulls off a sparkling production of ‘The Anonymous Lover’
The humorous and witty opera is one of only six of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges’ surviving works.
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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 Written
Edmond Dédé's 1887 magnum opus "Morgiane"—billed as "the most important opera never heard"—will finally get its premiere ...
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Q & A: Soprano Mary Elizabeth Williams on Edmond Dédé’s Opera ‘Morgiane’
Edmond Dédé’s 'Morgiane'" in four cities across the U.S. including New Orleans, Washington, DC, New York City, and College ...
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Opera Lafayette to premiere oldest known opera by black American composer
Morgiane, ou Le Sultan d’Ispahan, a grand opera composed in 1887 by Edmond Dédé, a black, free-born New Orleans native based ...
The Music of Edmond Dédé: A free-born Creole of color from New Orleans
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, ...
Found: A Manuscript That Unlocks a Forgotten Black Composer’s World
Almost 125 years after Edmond Dédé’s death, his magnum opus “Morgiane,” perhaps the oldest existing opera by a Black American ...