| re: The ever changing title of Porgy and Bess | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 12:51 pm EDT 06/19/19 | |
| In reply to: Porgy and Bess at the Met? - aleck 09:31 am EDT 06/19/19 | |
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| As has been well recoiunted, George Gershwin wrote the music, Dubose Heyward wrote the book and lyrics (and the novel, and the play based on the novel which the opera was based on with Dorothy Heyward) , and Ira Gershwin wrote all or part of the lyrics to 6 of 30+ songs + recitative and dialogue. The Heywards wrote the rest. The only lyrics solely by Ira are 'I can't sit down', it 'Ain't Necessarily so' and 'A Redheaded woman'. For aeons, this work was known as Gershwin's PORGY AND BESS, just as you would say Verdi's LA TRAVIATA, or Puccini's LA BOHEME. The original production in 1935 was billed as George Gershwin's PORGY AND BESS. The 1989 EMI recording from Glyndebourne is billed as Gershwin PORGY AND BESS. The Lorin Maazel recording bills George and Ira and Dubose Heyward above the title. The first version I can find called the Gershwins' PORGY AND BESS is the 2006 John Mauceri recording. To confuse the issue, the Simon Rattle recording 'Gershwin: PORGY AND BESS' from 1989, led to a TV production of the same Glydnebourne production in 1993, and a DV was released of that in the USA in 2001. By then it was now called The Gershwins' PORGY AND BESS. So the opera that Gershwin Heyward and Gershwin wrote now seems to have the same name as the rather lame musical that Diane Paulus et al deconstructed from it, Tony notwithstanding. |
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