It’s been 150 years since the Palais Garnier opera house opened in Paris. Today, it is still a working theater — with 172 ...

Prolific freeborn Creole composer Edmond Dédé’s career took him from New Orleans to Paris, but his masterwork has remained unheard until now.

To Quigley, the belated premiere of “Morgiane” helps to correct the erasures of an interrupted musical tradition in New Orleans — where many of the opera’s biggest stars came from Paris to ...