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Edmond Dédé: Selections from the opera “Morgiane” and more…
Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

Edmond Dédé:  Selections from the opera “Morgiane” and more…

Liisa Davíla, soprano | Kevin Doherty, baritone
Jeremiah Trujillo, piano

Berlioz: Two songs from Les nuits d’été, op. 7

Liszt: Oh! quand je dors, S. 282

Ravel: Don Quichotte à Dulcinée

Dédé: Selections from Morgiane

A free-born native of New Orleans, Edmond Dédé (1827–1901) spent over four decades conducting orchestras in Bordeaux, France. His recently found but never-performed opera, Morgiane (1888), is the earliest full-length opera by an African American composer. UC Davis Professor of History Sally McKee, author of The Exile’s Song: Edmond Dédé and the Unfinished Revolutions of the Atlantic World (Yale University Press, 2017) will offer some remarks on the work’s significance.

Free (a Shinkoskey Noon Concert)

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA

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