The New York Times

‘Porgy and Bess’ Isn’t Black Opera. It’s American Opera.

I didn’t grow up listening to musical theater cast albums. But one of the family LPs often in rotation was something related: the magnificent soundtrack recording from the 1959 film of “Porgy and Bess ...
Charleston City Paper

Remembering when Porgy came home

It took two generations and the racial awakening of the civil rights movement for Porgy and Bess to come back home to where it all started. The wildly successful international opera opened on Broadway ...
The New York Times

‘Porgy and Bess’ Can Offend. Now Try Translating It Into Spanish.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Minefields abound when translating outdated, sometimes derogatory dialect for the Metropolitan Opera’s seatback titles. By Eric Grode “Happy dust,” ...
The Forward

Could It Be Time For A Yiddish ‘Porgy And Bess?’

Suppose, instead of adapting the white Southerner DuBose Heyward’s 1925 novel “Porgy,” the Russian-Jewish American composer George Gershwin took on the Russian-Jewish Russian writer Isaac Babel’s 1926 ...