When love runs into challenges
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Love found and lost is the heartbeat of George Gershwin’s deeply moving opera “Porgy and Bess.” Few today dispute the work’s status as a full-fledged opera rather than as a Broadway musical, which was how it premiered in a heavily cut version in 1935. Indeed, the grimly realistic story of a disabled beggar who wins the love of a brassy but vulnerable woman has only grown in stature.
In this Los Angeles Opera presentation, Kevin Short and Alfred Walker will alternate as Porgy. Morenike Fadayomi and Indira Mahajan will alternate as Bess. Other double-cast
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12:00 a.m. May 4, 2007 For The Record
Los Angeles Times Friday May 04, 2007 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 1 inches; 45 words Type of Material: Correction
‘Porgy and Bess’: A Hot Ticket item in Thursday’s Calendar Weekend said that Los Angeles Opera was offering a special $20 ticket price for the May 20 performance of “Porgy and Bess.” It was actually the May 18 performance, but it is now sold out.
roles include Crown (Lester Lynch and Terry Cook), Sportin’ Life (Jermaine Smith and Victor Ryan Robertson) and Clara (Laquita Mitchell and Alyson Cambridge). John DeMain will conduct.
“Porgy and Bess,” Los Angeles Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., L.A. 7:30 p.m. Friday. $30 to $220. (213) 972-8001, www.laopera.com* Runs: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Tuesday, May 10, 11, 15, 17, 18; 2 p.m. May 13, 16; 1 p.m. May 20 (special $20 tickets); 8 p.m. May 19. Ends May 20.
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