The artistic director Calixto Bieito and the orchestral director Pablo Heras-Casado, both Spanish, direct scenery and music of the new production of 'The Rhine Gold' by Richard Wagner, which opens ...

Edmond Dédé's 1887 magnum opus "Morgiane"—billed as "the most important opera never heard"—will finally get its premiere ...

Composer Edmond Dédé, a Black American living in exile in France, completed the nearly 550-page score in 1887. He thought of ...

Attending a rehearsal also gives you a better understanding of the extent of the preparation that goes into a performance.

The point of the Garnier Opera building was never just the show onstage. It was the show of being on display, particularly for the rising bourgeoisie that had profited off France’s booming indus ...

After 138 years, a lost opera by the Black American composer Edmond Dédé finally gets its world premiere — and a performance ...

This palpable sense of intrigue and mystery that permeates the opera is due in part to its awe-inspiring Old-World interiors as well as Gaston Leroux, the author of "Phantom of the Opera," for ...

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 ...

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A promising tenor in his youth, Nonat devoted his life to championing budding vocalists, founding Montreal’s Théâtre ...