Good questions, especially as, I agree, the Met site isn't answering, at least not yet. From the quick research I just did, it appears that the Met's upcoming production will definitely NOT be the recent B'way. version(significant changes to book, dialogue and score, including new and reduced orchestrations). It will be the English National Opera production from last October which did cut about a half-hour from the absolutely complete original that James Levine insisted on when the Met did the work 1985-1990.(And which I found to be excruciating in its length.)There will be about two and a half hours of music; I believe the Paulus version was about that long INCLUDING the intermission.
Interestingly, although the sets and costumes, from the ENO, are by Bartlett Sher's usual collaborators, he is not directing as once announced. James Robinson will again direct, as he did for ENO.
But it does seem as if that new title("The Gershwins'...")is being used by the Met. |
