I’ve watched part of it but haven’t yet gotten through the Met’s current Porgy and Bess.
I find it sterile, for lack of a better one-word description. And I’m put off by the Gershwin estate’s hijacking of the title, especially when used in the opera house. (Maybe I’m remembering wrong that that BS started with the Broadway production?)
DR Elmore — did you by any chance see their first production in 1984/1985? I always regretted not getting to the east coast for that. It might very well not have been a perfect realization either, but I’ll bet it had the passion and drive. I wonder if my off-the-air recording still plays. It had a couple of gaps in it because of a transmission problem that day, and those were still the pre-high fidelity days of the Met broadcasts.