Frederick Douglass is a full-length opera written and composed by Dorothy Rudd Moore.
[1] The world premiere took place in 1985 at City College of New York's Aaron Davis Hall.
[4] She researched his life, wrote the libretto, the composition and the orchestration for the work, which took eight years to complete.
[4] The opera is based on his biography, and is less of a dramatic work than a "series of musical meditations on love, death, religion, political oppression and eventual deliverance.
"[2] The plot of the opera revolves around Douglass's second marriage, the Freedman's Savings Bank collapse and his mission to Haiti.