The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess (2009)
From the San Francisco Opera: "Porgy and Bess" by George Gershwin
10.0(1)2h 38mApril 19, 2009
Francesca Zambello
Director
DuBose Heyward
Writer
Rate
Diary
Overview
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.
