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Thursday, October 15, 2009

Opera Porgy and Bess gets 1960s Soweto setting

Reuters: "The role of Porgy, the crippled beggar in 'Porgy and Bess,' has always been hard to pull off as he changes from grump to lover, but a Cape Town Opera version opening in Britain this month sets him a Herculean challenge:
To get back his Bess, Porgy has to make his way from Soweto to New York City...in a goat cart."

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