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"iXeiTS its willarrK OPAS brings folk opera to By Kelcey Rieger THE BATTALION An opera at Texas A&M is a rare event, but the arrival of George and Ira Gershwin’s American opera, Porgy and Bess, will change that. “When we found out a touring theatrical company was performing Porgy and Bess, the Memorial Student Center Opera and Performing Arts Society (OPAS) jumped at the chance of having this very distinctive opera perform here at Texas A&M,” said Chris Duke, chair man of the program advisory board for MSC OPAS and a senior political science major. Porgy and Bess, will be performed at A&M’s Rudder Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday. Porgy and Bess is the most famous and controversial American opera of the 20th century. The story entwines pride, prejudice, pathos and passion through a jazz and blues influenced score. Porgy and Bess was originally billed as a “folk opera,” a folktale in which people would naturally sing folk music. Craig Boleman, a spokesperson for Porgy and Bess, said the show is a wonderful theatrical production, and, although written in the early 1930s by the famous Texas A&M the Gershwin brothers, the opera is full of life and energy more than 65 years after its premiere at New York City’s Alvin Theatre. “This year we are celebrating 100 years of Gershwin,” Boleman said. “Which makes this tour of Porgy and Bess unique. It is a spec tacular show and a distinct part of A^nerican history.” Based on a novel by Dubose Heyward, the opera is set in Charleston, S.C., in 1920. Porgy and Bess is about the love of the crippled Porgy for the beautiful Bess. Porgy witnesses a murder and later gives shelter to Bess, who is the murderer’s love interest. The story has many twists and turns as Porgy and Bess develop feelings for one another, but their happiness is short-lived when the murderer, Crown, returns for Bess. A very distinct characteristic of Porgy and Bess is the use of lan guage and music of the Gullahs. The Gullah language is a Creole blend of English and African lan guages born on Africa’s slave coast and developed in the slave commu nities of the Coastal South such as South Carolina and Georgia. The cast of Porgy and Bess con sists of many talented actors and actresses who have been on the Porgy and Bess stage many times before. Elizabeth Graham (Bess) is a distin guished opera singer and teacher who has performed extensively through out the United Sates in opera's such PHOTO COURTESY OF MSC OPAS as Madame Butterfly and Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte. Brian R. Gibson (Porgy) has toured throughout the world performing with groups such as the Metropolitan Opera and has given command performances for the royal houses of Sweden and Spain. national r Society eeting irch 20th Jus 111 Northgate Parklng...No Problem Northgate Par King Rates Have Been Slashed!! 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