PORGY AND BESS = AMAZING!!!!!!
Went to the 1st preview. If all the early word swirling around (plus BB’s sour NYT review of the Boston production) keeps people away, it’ll be a shame. On the other hand, if you go as sceptical as I was because of all that, you may just be bowled over. I sure was. This is to P&B The Opera as Peter Brook’s Tragédie de Carmen was to its original – stripped down, orchestrally thinned out, musically meaningful theatre, not theatrically meaningful music. It’s not an easy task: any production has ...
