Many historians say that “Morgiane” is the oldest existing opera written by a Black American. The most important work of composer Edmond Dédé ... music at the Paris Conservatoire and ...

“Yesterday I spent the whole day in the studio of a strange painter called Degas,” Parisian man of letters Edmond de Goncourt ... In 1875, a new Paris opera house opened—the Palais Garnier ...