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

Two works by Hector Berlioz get the spotlight in the orchestra’s latest program, along with music by Debussy, Richard Strauss ...

The Furgos New Release 'Retrospective' - Refreshing And Swinging. Posted in “Recording” column. Published: January 25, 2025 @ ...

The earliest-known, full-length opera by a Black American composer, New Orleans' own Edmond Dédé, will be performed for the ...

Riccardo Muti led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in a program that featured Verdi’s “Four Seasons” and ...

Conductor Raphaël Pichon makes his New York debut at age 40 on Thursday night, leading the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at ...

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 ...

Romantic, fantastic and, in the end, humanly tragic, Jacques Offenbach’s opera “The Tales of Hoffman” turned out to be an apt though ambiguous finale to the life of its prodigious ...

The London Philharmonic Orchestra has announced that its next ... Born in 1960, he studied with Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire and with Alexander Goehr at King’s College, Cambridge.

The London Symphony Orchestra, where he is conductor emeritus for life, is marking the occasion with a series of concerts in London, Paris and Luxembourg ... full-length opera was first seen ...