Morgiane, perhaps the oldest opera by a Black American, finally receives its full public performance, shedding light on the ...

Edmond Dédé's 1887 magnum opus "Morgiane"—billed as "the most important opera never heard"—will finally get its premiere ...

For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans’ famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the chapel filled ...

(UC Davis file photo) Digitized version of original opera by Edmond Dédé uncovered in historian Sally ... her onto a cache of manuscripts that Harvard had purchased from a Paris collection in 2000.

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 ...

The earliest-known, full-length opera by a Black American composer, New Orleans' own Edmond Dédé, will be performed for the ...

Prolific freeborn Creole composer Edmond Dédé’s career took him from New Orleans to Paris, but his masterwork has remained unheard until now.