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The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
April 19 2009 (almost 16 years ago)Rating
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From the San Francisco Opera: "Porgy and Bess" by George Gershwin
- Director: Francesca Zambello
- Genre: Music
- Runtime: 2 h 38 m
- Country: United States of America
- Company: San Francisco Opera
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.
