Observer Opera Review: Edmond Dédé's Morgiane
Joshua Conyers, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Chauncey Packer and Patrick Quigley. Jennifer Packard, courtesy of Opera Lafayette In 1887, New Orleans-born composer Edmond Dédé completed a film called Mojian And, perhaps history has been made unconsciously. His large opera is the oldest large opera and the first famous opera by a black American composer. Sometime after…