"Morgiane" is believed to be the oldest existing opera written by a Black American, but it wasn't seen by audiences until 2025.

The week before Abraham Lincoln’s and Frederick Douglass’s birthdays, Opera Lafayette — best known under founder Ryan Brown for performances of French baroque ...

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

This year, excerpts from "Morgiane" were played at New Orleans' St. Louis Cathedral, which is believed to be where Dédé was ...

Composer Edmond Dédé, a Black American living in exile in France ... "Dédé's relationship was, I'm guessing, gone," Joseph says. "He presented it to the Paris Opera, but it was never picked up. And so ...

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 ...

Composer Edmond Dédé, a Black American living in exile in France ... “Dédé’s relationship was, I’m guessing, gone,” Joseph says. “He presented it to the Paris Opera, but it was never picked up. And so ...

Edmond Dédé’s 1887 magnum opus “Morgiane”—billed as “the most important opera never heard”—will ... emerged from an antique music shop in Paris in 1999, wound up in the Harvard ...