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Opera Cheat Sheet: Porgy And Bess

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Porgy and Bess by the New York Harlem Theatre. GNU Free Documentation License. In this OCS, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra discuss George Gershwin’s 1935 masterpiece, considered by many to be the Great American Opera. Based on DuBose Heyward’s novel Porgy, Gershwin’s opera tells the story of the residents of Charleston, South Carolina’s Catfish Row, a tenement inhabited by poor black families, and the love story... Read More