I loves you, Porgy

摘要

The Cape Town Opera (cto), the only professional opera company to survive South Africa's transition from apartheid to majority rule, is on the point of bringing a new production of George and Ira Gershwin's folk masterpiece "Porgy and Bess" to Britain. It will be visiting Cardiff, London and Edinburgh, for a few days each, at the end of October. Although just about everybody is familiar with the musical's great songs-such as "Summertime" and "It Ain't Necessarily So"-the Gershwin estate's insistence on all-black casts has meant that performances in Britain have to rely partly on imported singers and are relatively rare.