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Title:
Porgy and Bess [CD]
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Publication Date:
2019
Publication Information:
[New York] : Metropolitan Opera, [2019]
℗2019
Physical Description:
3 audio discs (163 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Abstract:
To open the 2019-20 season, this production returned to the Met stage for the first time in nearly 30 years. The acclaimed new production of America's favorite opera is captured in this three-CD set headlined by Eric Owens and Angel Blue in the title roles. Breaking company box-office records, it was even extended for an unprecedented three additional performances in February 2020.
General Note:
Opera in three acts.
Title from disc label.
At head of title: The Gershwins'.
Program notes (16 unnumbered pages : portraits) inserted in container.
Compact discs.
Performers:
Angel Blue, Latonia Moore, Golda Schultz, sopranos ; Frederick Ballentine, tenor ; Eric Owens, bass-baritone ; Alfred Walker, bass ; with supporting soloists ; the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; David Robertson, conductor.
Contents:
Disc 1. Introduction -- Summertime -- Oh, nobody knows when de Lawd is goin' to call -- Seem like dese bones -- Summertime (reprise) -- Give him to me -- Here come de honey man -- Here comes Big Boy! -- Oh, little stars, little stars -- Jesus, he's killed him! -- Where is brother Robbins? -- Come on sister, come on brother -- A saucer-burying setup, I see -- My man's gone now -- How de saucer stan' now, my sister? -- Oh, the train at the station -- Disc 2. Oh, I'm a-goin out to de Blackfish Banks -- Mus' be you mens forgot about de picnic -- Oh, I got plenty o'nuttin' -- Listen there what I tells you? -- Mornin', Lawyer -- 'Lo, Bess, goin' to picnic? -- Bess, you is my woman now -- Oh, I can't sit down! -- What's de matter wid you, sister? -- I ain' got no shame -- It ain't necessarily so -- Shame on all you sinners! -- Oh, what you want wid Bess? -- Lemme go, hear dat boat -- Honey, dat's all de breakfast I got time for -- Take yo' hands off me, I say -- Oh Doctor Jesus -- Oh, dey's so fresh an' fine -- Now de time, oh Gawd -- I wants to stay here - I loves you Porgy -- Why you been out on dat wharf so long, Clara? -- Oh, Doctor Jesus -- Oh, de Lawd shake de Heavens -- One of dese mornin's -- Oh, dere's somebody knockin' at de do' -- You is a nice parcel of Christians -- If Gawd want to kill me -- A red-headed woman -- Jake's boat, in de river -- Disc 3. Clara, Clara, don't you be downhearted -- You low-lived skunk -- Summertime (reprise) -- Wait for us over there, Al -- Oh Gawd! They goin' make him look on Crown's face! -- There's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York -- Good mornin' sistuh! Good mornin' brudder -- It's Porgy comin' home! -- Oh, Bess, oh where's my Bess -- Bess is gone -- Oh, Lawd, I'm on my way.
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Language:
English
Additional Language:
Sung in English.
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