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The earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American, “Morgiane,” will premiere this week in Washington, DC, Maryland and New York more than century after it was completed.
Frederick Douglass is a full-length opera written and composed by Dorothy Rudd Moore. It is 180 minutes in duration and consists of three acts. [1] The world premiere took place in 1985 at City College of New York's Aaron Davis Hall. [2] The opera was commissioned by Opera Ebony. [3]
Opera in three acts. Libretto by composer. [3] 1973–76 The Ice Break: Voices and orchestra 7 July 1977: London. Royal Opera House cond. Colin Davis: Opera in three acts. Libretto by composer. [3] 1985–88 New Year: Voices and orchestra 27 October 1989: Houston, Texas. Houston Grand Opera cond. John DeMain: Opera in three acts. Libretto by ...
In an ambitious effort to chart the lineage of Yoruba and Afrobeats music over the past century and its global influence, Nigerian superstar Adekunle Gold has co-produced a forthcoming documentary ...
Davis is perhaps best known for his operas; he has been called "the dean of African-American opera composers." [ 3 ] His better known compositions include X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X , [ 1 ] which was premiered by the New York City Opera in 1986; Amistad , which premiered with the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1997; and Wakonda's Dream ...
Harry Lawrence Freeman. Harry Lawrence Freeman (October 9, 1869 – March 24, 1954) was an American neoromantic opera composer, [1] conductor, impresario and teacher. He was the first African-American to write an opera (Epthalia, 1891) that was successfully produced.
The Cincinnati Opera will present an Afrofuturist-themed production next year that commemorates the Juneteenth holiday and would mark the first of three commissions from the company to all-Black ...
L'Africaine (The African Woman) is an 1865 French grand opéra in five acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer and a libretto by Eugène Scribe.Meyerbeer and Scribe began working on the opera in 1837, using the title L'Africaine, but around 1852 changed the plot to portray fictitious events in the life of the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama and introduced the working title Vasco de Gama, the ...