New Orleans - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

The oldest known opera by a Black composer is an adaptation of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves by a composer from this city. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this home city of Edmond Dédé (“day-DAY”), whose opera Morgiane (“mor-jee-AHN”) was premiered in 2025 by its OperaCréole. Louis Armstrong was born in this city.

ANSWER: New Orleans

[10m] In this composer’s opera A Bayou Legend, Clothilde (“clo-TEELD”) arranges for Bazile (“bah-ZEEL”) to be lynched after communing with the spirit of his ex-lover. This composer wrote the Afro-American Symphony.

ANSWER: William Grant Still

[10h] After Greta breaks up with the protagonist of this opera, he returns to his Louisiana home and debates killing his sexually abusive cousin Chester. Charles M. Blow is the protagonist of this Terence Blanchard opera.

ANSWER: Fire Shut Up in My Bones

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	18.00	100%	40%	40%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	12.22	100%	11%	11%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	18.75	100%	50%	38%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	11.67	83%	33%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	14.29	100%	43%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	7	15.71	100%	43%	14%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	50%	50%	25%

Data


Berkeley A	Stanford A	10	10	10	30
Berkeley D	Berkeley B	10	0	0	10
Berkeley C	Stanford B	10	10	0	20
Carleton University	Toronto B	10	0	0	10
Guelph	Waterloo B	10	0	0	10
Western C	McGill B	10	0	0	10
Brock	McMaster B	10	10	0	20
Waterloo A	Ottawa	10	10	0	20
Queen's	Simon Fraser	10	0	0	10
Toronto C	Toronto D	10	0	0	10
McMaster A	Toronto F	10	0	0	10
UBC A	Western A	10	0	0	10
Toronto Metropolitan	Western B	10	0	0	10
UC Santa Barbara	UC Irvine	0	0	0	0
Arizona State	UCLA A	10	0	0	10
UCSD A	UCLA B	10	0	0	10
UCSD B	UCSD C	10	10	0	20
Central Florida A	Florida B	0	0	0	0
Michigan A	Michigan B	10	0	10	20
Ohio State A	Michigan C	10	10	0	20
Ohio State B	CWRU A	10	0	0	10
Ohio State C	CWRU B	10	0	0	10
Pittsburgh	Michigan State	10	10	10	30
Central Florida B	Florida A	10	0	0	10
Florida C	Central Florida C	10	0	0	10
NC State A	Duke	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech B	James Madison A	10	0	0	10
VCU	James Madison B	10	0	0	10
Liberty A	Liberty C	10	0	0	10
Virginia	NC State B	10	10	10	30
William and Mary	North Carolina A	10	0	0	10
South Carolina A	Wake Forest	10	0	0	10
South Carolina B	North Carolina C	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Liberty B	10	0	0	10
Illinois A	Illinois B	10	10	0	20
Indiana A	Purdue B	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame A	Northwestern B	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame B	Chicago D	10	0	0	10
Purdue A	Indiana C	10	10	10	30
Harvard A	Brandeis B	10	10	0	20
Southern Connecticut State	Dartmouth A	10	10	0	20
Harvard B	Bowdoin A	10	0	0	10
Yale	Bowdoin B	10	0	0	10
Dartmouth B	Brandeis A	0	0	0	0
MIT	Brown	10	0	0	10
Chicago A	Indiana B	10	10	10	30
Chicago E	Northwestern C	10	0	0	10
Northwestern D	Illinois C	10	0	0	10
Washington A	Claremont	10	0	0	10
Minnesota A	Missouri A	10	10	10	30
Washington B	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Texas B	Texas A&M A	10	0	0	10
Murray State A	Texas A	10	0	0	10
Missouri B	Iowa State	10	0	0	10
Bruin	Alabama A	10	10	0	20
Louisville B	Alabama B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Kentucky	10	0	0	10
Louisville A	Mississipi State	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Tennessee B	10	0	0	10
Sewanee	Vanderbilt B	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech B	WashU B	10	10	0	20
Birmingham	Imperial B	10	0	0	10
Cambridge A	Edinburgh A	10	0	0	10
Warwick B	Cardiff	10	0	0	10
Edinburgh B	UCL	10	0	0	10
Bristol	Imperial A	10	0	0	10
Imperial C	City St. George's	10	0	0	10
LSE	Durham	10	0	0	10
Manchester	Warwick A	10	0	0	10
Montpellier	Southampton A	10	0	0	10
Cambridge B	Oxford A	10	0	0	10
Oxford B	Cambridge C	10	0	0	10
Southampton B	Oxford C	10	0	0	10
Georgetown	Columbia A	10	10	0	20
John Jay	Columbia C	10	0	0	10
Maryland B	Johns Hopkins A	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins B	Vassar	10	0	0	10
NYU B	Maryland C	10	10	0	20
Columbia B	NYU C	10	10	10	30
Rutgers A	Swarthmore	10	0	0	10
Binghamton B	Binghamton A	0	0	0	0
Cornell A	Cornell C	10	10	0	20
Penn State	RIT	10	10	10	30
Cornell B	Rochester	0	0	0	0