A Fairy Tale Opera Trades the Moral for the Mysterious

Matthias Pintscher’s first opera in 20 years invites audiences to find their own meaning in a macabre 19th-century tale.
NOLA.com

Lost opera from New Orleans-born Black composer will premiere 138 years after completion

New Orleanians Givonna Joseph and Patrick Quigley were guests of honor Wednesday at a small gathering on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The wine flowed. The caviar was as salty as ever. And singer ...
The Business Journals

Thanks to Opera Lafayette, a 19th-century Black opera comes to life for the first time

Edmond Dédé, a fourth-generation free Black man born in Louisiana in 1827, wrote the opera in 1887 in France, where he lived and worked as a composer for most of his career. D.C.’s Opera Lafayette is ...
ucdavis.edu

First Opera by Black American — Brought to Light by UC Davis Historian — Gets Its Due

Sally McKee, professor of history emerita at UC Davis, wrote a book, published in 2017, about a free African American man who was an accomplished composer and conductor. The opera she discovered in ...