At WNO, ‘Porgy and Bess' wins the heart by sticking to the script
It's a moment of stillness that conveys much about director Francesca Zambello's vision for George Gershwin's enduring 1935 'folk opera,' one she first realized in 2005 at the Glimmerglass Festival. Free of conceptual frills and narrative alterations (apart from a slight bump of the setting from the 1920s to the '40s), this is a revival that takes the reviving part seriously.
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