The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
“From the San Francisco Opera: "Porgy and Bess" by George Gershwin”
10.0(1)20092h 38mEN
Directed by Francesca Zambello
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
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operadrug addictionmusicalsouth carolinabased on play or musicalcripplepoverty rowcharleston1900s20th centuryromantic drama
