Revenge and happiness are feelings constantly at play in Edmond Dede's opera Morgiane, ou le Sultan d'Ispahan.
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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 ...
Composer Edmond Dédé, a Black American living in exile in France ... "Dédé's relationship was, I'm guessing, gone," Joseph ...
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For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans’ famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the chapel filled ...
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 ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Almost 125 years after Edmond Dédé’s death, his magnum opus “Morgiane,” perhaps the oldest existing opera by a Black ... Dédé moved to Paris around 1889 and ...
Prolific freeborn Creole composer Edmond Dédé’s career took him from New Orleans to Paris, but his masterwork has remained unheard until now.
With the world premiere of a 138-year-old opera by composer Edmond Dédé — a freeborn ... career that started in New Orleans and ended in Paris, Dédé composed symphonic pieces, ballet ...
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.
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