In the early 1800s, New Orleans was a vibrant cultural hub. As music bubbled through the city’s wards, Black orchestras performed for Black audiences and tweaked classical tunes in early antecedents ...

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 ...

Composer Edmond Dédé, a Black American living in ... "He presented it to the Paris Opera, but it was never picked up. And so, there it sat." More than a century later, and through a series ...

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.

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.

New Orleanians Givonna Joseph and Patrick Quigley were guests of honor Wednesday at a small gathering on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

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 ...

Now, 138 years after it was composed, Morgiane is being produced in a concert setting. Two companies, OperaCréole and Opera ...