![]() And you know what? New Orleans was the first city to have a full opera season on the North American continent. SIMON: New Orleans, of course - we understand its position as a center of jazz, but opera, too, right? He was playing - originally he was playing "Miserere," you know, from "Il Trovatore," you know, Verdi. And I think that that's what we were listening to just now. And so he even said, you know, I actually cribbed a lot of the arias and I jazzified (ph) them, you know, in my early life. THOMPKINS: Jelly Roll Morton - you know, if you know anything about Jelly Roll Morton, and in New Orleans, you just have to, then you know that Jelly Roll spent a lot of his youth at the turn of the last century at the French opera house. Jazz and opera - when did it strike you that there was a relationship between these two genres? She is a mezzo soprano singer and founded OperaCreole, a New Orleans-based opera troupe. She teaches at Loyola University, New Orleans. SIMON: And we're also pleased to welcome Givanna Joseph. She's the host of the public radio program Music Inside Us. It's featured on its website, and there you can see videos produced by our pal and former colleague here on Weekend Edition, Gwendolyn Thompkins. SIMON: The New Orleans Opera has commissioned a project on the subject of opera and jazz. (SOUNDBITE OF JELLY ROLL MORTON'S "JELLY ROLL CARVES SAINT LOUIS") ![]() Jazz, of course, is born of the African American experience and draws from musical influences around the world, including opera. (SOUNDBITE OF JELLY ROLL MORTON PERFORMANCE OF GIUSEPPE VERDI'S "MISERERE")Īnd that is Jelly Roll Morton, the jazz legend, playing "Miserere" from the opera "Il Trovatore" for Alan Lomax in 1938.
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