Almost 125 years after Edmond Dédé’s death, his magnum opus “Morgiane,” perhaps the oldest existing opera by a Black American ...

The version of the opera being performed in New Orleans is being scaled down to 65 minutes with no intermission. The full ...

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

It was in Bordeaux through the 1860s and 1870s that ... light vocals and his fondness for the music of his childhood in New Orleans. Dédé only returned to the United States once more, in 1893 ...

Edmond Dédé’s 'Morgiane'" in four cities across the U.S. including New Orleans, Washington, DC, New York City, and College ...

Prolific freeborn Creole composer Edmond Dédé's career took him from New Orleans to Paris, but his masterwork has remained unheard until now.

Givonna Joseph, a mezzo-soprano who founded Opera Créole with her daughter in 2011, first encountered Morgiane in 2014 when a ...

One was a 150-year-old Bordeaux, a nice find ... the Sazerac House in New Orleans, LA, and the Domaine Sazerac de Segonzac Cognac estate and distillery in France. Pertsovksy told LaGamma that ...

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Moderated by Garagiste Festival Co-founder Stewart McLennan, the seminar explored with Gary his winemaking journey – from his discovery of food and wine in New Orleans in the late 1960s ...

A cup of drip coffee from Chiapas stays firmly rooted in the earth, with some of the same barnyard character I like in a funky Bordeaux wine ... Born in New Orleans, raised in Katy and schooled ...