According to Joseph, “Morgiane” is likely the first four-act opera written by a Black American composer. Dédé was born and ...

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

This year’s Prototype, a showcase of experimental opera and theater, was stylistically broad but the focus was on the human ...

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

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

New Orleans-born composer Edmond Dédé's opera 'Morgiane' was lost for more than 130 years. The earliest known opera by a ...

Before the world premiere of New Orleans-born composer Edmond Dédé’ s grand opera "Morgiane," the Historic New Orleans ...

Two dresses in one now, as Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell twinned in the iconic Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The double-act ...

Sai Lovegood and Lee Williams are working on the wardrobe for this year's New Zealand Opera School in Whanganui. Photo / Fergus Reid - ANZOS Whanganui fashion and textile designer Lee Williams ...

LOS ANGELES — Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in ...

Mary was preceded in death by her father and mother, Harry and Elizabeth Bryan, brother Joe, brother-in-law C. David Phelps, and her beloved four-legged companions Tonto and Daisy.