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FULL MORGIANE (Edmond Dédé) Selections Davis CA 2017 Liisa Davíla, Kevin Doherty
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Morgiane, ou, Le sultan d'Ispahan
- Composer: Dédé Edmond
- Libretto: Louis Brunet
- Venue & Opera Company: Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, University of California, Davis, California
- Recorded: November 16, 2017
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Liisa Davíla, Kevin Doherty
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Jeremiah Trujillo, PIANO
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, gensubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Berlioz: Two songs from Les nuits d’été, op. 7
Liszt: Oh! quand je dors, S. 282
Ravel: Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
Dédé: Selections from Morgiane
A free-born native of New Orleans, Edmond Dédé (1827–1901) spent over four decades conducting orchestras in Bordeaux, France. His recently found but never-performed opera, Morgiane (1888), is the earliest full-length opera by an African American composer. UC Davis Professor of History Sally McKee, author of The Exile’s Song: Edmond Dédé and the Unfinished Revolutions of the Atlantic World (Yale University Press, 2017) will offer some remarks on the work’s significance.