Porgy and Bess, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
It should work as pure musical theatre. Yet what precisely is Gershwin's - or rather "The Gershwins'", as this title frames it, though Ira wasn't quite Gilbert or Brecht - Porgy and Bess? An opera? Trevor Nunn made the three-hour-plus score, much cut here, dazzle at Glyndebourne and Covent Garden. Michael Tilson Thomas's Barbican espousal of bleeding chunks alongside Berg's Lulu, left as a torso in the year of Porgy'…
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