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B^NGELES (AP) — Director Steven
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lifj for the movie's 20th anniver-
rerelease.
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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.
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