that Porgy and Bess came into its own. The melodrama of a 1905 Charleston waterfront slum, which might otherwise have been forgotten, was elevated into a world favorite. Sidney Poitier makes him ...
In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess - a woman with ... her shelter is the crippled Porgy. Their relationship is ...