New Orleans - Upper Mid-Atlantic

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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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


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