Wednesday, October 22, 2014

The triumphant all-American opera returns to Lyric: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess Opens Monday, November 17 with 13 performances through December 20


November 17 - December 20, 2014

  •                          by The Gershwins
  • Porgy and Bess
    by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heward and Ira Gershwin

    In English with projected English texts
  • Approximate running time: 3hrs, 10 min

Redemption is hard to find.

Porgy and Bess is the great American opera — bursting with iconic songs that have moved easily into the worlds of jazz and pop, becoming hits again for generation after generation. Six years after its triumphant Lyric debut, Francesca Zambello's big, beautiful, epic production returns with its finely etched portrait of life in Catfish Row — a vibrant but impoverished African-American community on the South Carolina coast.
There's Crown, the brutish thug; Sportin' Life, the smooth-talking drug peddler; Bess, the good-time girl who finally finds love with the goodhearted Porgy; and Porgy himself, the lame beggar who's the strongest of them all — an unquenchable spirit who'll stop at nothing to reclaim the woman he loves.

Lyric Opera Presentation. Generous sponsors are the Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust, The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, Cherryl T. Thomas and Ardmore Associates, and Roberta L. and Robert J. Washlow with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Production owned by Washington National Opera.
- See more at: http://www.lyricopera.org/porgy/#sthash.x2pYJMz1.dpuf

  •                          by The Gershwins
  • Porgy and Bess
    by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heward and Ira Gershwin

    In English with projected English texts
  • Approximate running time: 3hrs, 10 min

Redemption is hard to find.

Porgy and Bess is the great American opera — bursting with iconic songs that have moved easily into the worlds of jazz and pop, becoming hits again for generation after generation. Six years after its triumphant Lyric debut, Francesca Zambello's big, beautiful, epic production returns with its finely etched portrait of life in Catfish Row — a vibrant but impoverished African-American community on the South Carolina coast.
There's Crown, the brutish thug; Sportin' Life, the smooth-talking drug peddler; Bess, the good-time girl who finally finds love with the goodhearted Porgy; and Porgy himself, the lame beggar who's the strongest of them all — an unquenchable spirit who'll stop at nothing to reclaim the woman he loves.

Lyric Opera Presentation. Generous sponsors are the Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust, The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, Cherryl T. Thomas and Ardmore Associates, and Roberta L. and Robert J. Washlow with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Production owned by Washington National Opera.
- See more at: http://www.lyricopera.org/porgy/#sthash.x2pYJMz1.dpuf

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