In 1887, a composer completed the greatest work of his life: a grand opera, 545 pages long, telling a story of epic ...
Edmond Dédé's 1887 magnum opus "Morgiane"—billed as "the most important opera never heard"—will finally get its premiere ...
Givonna Joseph, a mezzo-soprano who founded Opera Créole with her daughter in 2011, first encountered Morgiane in 2014 when a ...
"I think of Mozart as a fine meal, prepared with organically grown ingredients, slow-cooked at someone's home, people ...
A 1,000-year-old manuscript has been missing for centuries, and fragments of it have finally been recovered. The lost ...
Geyer, 33, first came across the lost archive when he was commissioned to write a composition in memory of Sir Martin Gilbert ...
For many of us who play music by canonical composers like Mozart, the notated score is sacred. Our job as performers, we ...
Prolific freeborn Creole composer Edmond Dédé’s career took him from New Orleans to Paris, but his masterwork has remained ...
“You’ll be able to see Dickens’ original manuscripts, letters to friends and family and rare first editions of his most famous works,” per the exhibition website. “But you’ll also ...