Almost 125 years after Edmond Dédé’s death, his magnum opus “Morgiane,” perhaps the oldest existing opera by a Black American ...
Morgiane, perhaps the oldest opera by a Black American, finally receives its full public performance, shedding light on the ...
Composer Edmond Dédé, a Black American living in exile in France, completed the nearly 550-page score in 1887. But the ...
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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 ...
(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.
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 unheard until now.
The earliest-known, full-length opera by a Black American composer, New Orleans' own Edmond Dédé, will be performed for the ...
A photo of Edmond Dédé from later in the ... Dédé, frustrated, presented the work to the Paris opera, and they also did not pick up “Morgiane,” Joseph says. “Many commentators in French ...
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