11/10/2022 0 Comments Porgy and bess houston grand opera![]() ![]() ![]() The creative community has slowly begun responding to the persistence of racism in our society in recent years. Yes it matters how we relate to the whole thing today. Like it or not, yes this opera is part of who we are as Americans of the United States. Yes it puts Black artists on the world’s greatest stages. Yes there is some Black culture in there. Yes it is appropriation of another’s culture. Yes it perpetuates some negative stereotypes. Yes it’s a white team’s perspective of Black culture. Yes slavery was evil and that evil has been perpetuated after it was outlawed, even to the present day. Perhaps you have to just swallow the thing whole. How does an outsider tell an insider’s story without falling into stereotype and appropriation? How do members of the community participate in the story without stereotyping themselves? ![]() The opera is controversial because it is a white creative team’s depiction of Black life. He is trying to save his friend Bess from her abusive boyfriend Crown and her drug dealer Sportin’ Life. Porgy is a disabled beggar living on the streets. The opera is set in the 1920s on the streets of a poor Black fishing community in Charleston, South Carolina. Porgy and Bess, George Gershwin’s classic 1935 opera about Black life in America’s old South, is at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center for fourteen performances between Septemand February 1, 2020. ![]()
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