Porgy and Bess 🎭

Tonight and Tomorrow's Met Opera is the Gershwins' Porgy and Bess.  

I have always loved the music of the Gershwins. I am also a huge fan of Eric Owens (he was great in Das Rheingold). I am also a big fan of Angel Blue. I have not seen this production, so I am looking forward to it. A good show just as summer is ending...

I am surprised cancel culture has not taken out this show. It was written by dead white Jewish guys, based on a book by an establishment dead white Southerner, so you'd think the über-woke would declare it cultural appropriation and full of racial stereotropes. It actually has drawn that criticism from some, it is just those criticsms have not gained critical mass (yet). Give it time. Woke never sleeps. Fortunately, the vast majority of the public love Porgy and Bess, which gives it some protection.   

World Socialist Web Site: New Met production of Porgy and Bess prompts racialist criticisms of America’s greatest opera (actually not a bad article from that socialist rag)

Observer: Angel Blue steals the Porgy and Bess show

Mark Steyn: Summertime (song for the season)

AoSHQ: Morning Report 09.04.20 

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American Experience

The Many Faces of Catfish Row and Aria Code

Porgy and Bess at Schomberg Center and Dancing Queen

All I Cared About Was Bess

Eric Owens' character Alberich gets dissed by the River-Babes in Das Rheingold.

Rule 5 and FMJRA