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 ...
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After 138 years, a Black composer's magnum opus finds a stage
Composer Edmond Dédé, a Black American living in exile in France ... "Dédé's relationship was, I'm guessing, gone," Joseph ...
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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 ...
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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A New Orleans-born Black composer's opera finally comes to life more than 130 years later
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 ...
After 138 years, Black American composer Edmond Dédé gets his flowers
Prolific freeborn Creole composer Edmond Dédé’s career took him from New Orleans to Paris, but his masterwork has remained unheard until now.
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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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He’s the first Black American to compose a full opera. It’s finally being staged after 138 years
They were the first to hear composer Edmond Dédé’s opera “Morgiane” – the earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American – more than century after he composed the opus.