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MORGIANE (Edmond Dédé) College Park MD 2025 Mary Elizabeth Williams, Kenneth Kellogg, Nicole Cabell
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Morgiane, ou, Le sultan d'Ispahan
- Composer: Dédé Edmond
- Libretto: Louis Brunet Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Dekelboum Concert Hall at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, School of Music and Clarice, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
- Recorded: February 7, 2025
- Type: Staged Opera Live
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Did you know that the first complete opera by a Black American has been hidden in a single manuscript for more than 130 years? Edmond Dédé, a fourth-generation free person of color born in 1827 New Orleans, had an incredibly successful career as a conductor and composer in Bordeaux, France, writing nearly 100 critically and popularly acclaimed works for the French stage. His magnum opus, however–a four act French grand opera on themes from Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves–had yet to receive a premiere at the time of his death and languished, unrecognized, in private collections and libraries for over a century.