"Morgiane" is believed to be the oldest existing opera written by a Black American, but it wasn't seen by audiences until 2025.

The week leading up to Super Bowl 59 in New Orleans, the St. Louis Cathedral is bringing out thousands to the French Quarter for a mesmerizing light show. The program is bringing out football fans and ...

Now, 138 years after it was composed, Morgiane is being produced in a concert setting. Two companies, OperaCréole and Opera ...

Some see the Super Bowl LIX light projections on St. Louis Cathedral as a ‘breathtaking’ experience others, a ‘tragic misuse ...

Morgiane, perhaps the oldest opera by a Black American, finally receives its full public performance, shedding light on the ...

New Orleanians Givonna Joseph and Patrick Quigley were guests of honor Wednesday at a small gathering on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans’ famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the chapel filled ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The St. Louis Cathedral echoed with the music of ... We had an integrated orchestra in 1840,” said Givonna Joseph, a brilliant music educator and the founder of OperaCréole.

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OperaCréole and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra rehearse Edmond Dédé's nearly lost 1887 opera Morgiane at St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans. After Joseph learned of the piece, she ...