Name: Porgy and Bess
Start: 2018-10-27
End: 2018-10-27
Location: London Coliseum

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Bass-baritone

Eric Greene

Porgy

Soprano

Nicole Cabell

Bess

Baritone

Nmon Ford

Crown

Latonia Moore

Serena

Gweneth Ann Rand

Nadine Benjamin

Clara

Contralto

Tichina Vaughn

Maria

Donovan Singletary

Jake

Tenor

Frederick Ballentine

Sportin' Life

Rheinaldt Moagi

Mingo

Chaz'men Williams-Ali

Crabman

Byron Jackson

Frazier

Mezzo-soprano

Sarah-Jane Lewis

Annie

Nozuko Teto

Strawberry woman

Njabulo Madlala

Whitaker Mills

Undertaker

Thando Mjandana

Nelson

Conductor

John Wilson

Stage director

James Robinson

Set designer

Michael Yeargan

Costume designer

Catherine Zuber

Video designer

Luke Halls

Lighting designer

Donald Holder

Choreographer

Dianne McIntyre

Robbins

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English National Opera

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Porgy and Bess

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London Coliseum

Porgy and Bess Gershwin

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Porgy and Bess | 11 Oct – 17 Nov 2018 | London Coliseum |Tickets from £12, with 500 tickets available at every performance for £20 or less. Find out more: ww...

Porgy and Bess | 11 October – 17 November 2018 | London Coliseum |

Tickets from £12, with 500 tickets available at every performance for £20 or less. 

Find out more: www.eno.org/porgy

The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess explores the relationships between members of a close-knit community in 1920s South Carolina.

Making their ENO debuts are conductor John Wilson and director James Robinson, the Artistic Director of Opera St Louis. Leading the cast are Eric Greene as Porgy and Nicole Cabell as Bess. Nmon Ford makes his role debut as Crown, and Latonia Moore, an outstanding ENO Aida, returns to the London Coliseum as Serena. British soprano Nadine Benjamin makes her company debut as Clara, while rising tenor Frederick Ballentine makes his UK debut as Sporting Life.

See Porgy and Bess at the London Coliseum from 11 October – 17 November 2018.

Learn more and book tickets: www.eno.org/porgy

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Set in 1920s South Carolina, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess is a thought provoking, gritty and spirited ‘folk opera’.

When Bess is abandoned by her lover, the only person who shows her kindness is the crippled beggar Porgy. They commit to a new life together, but the destructive forces of her violent ex-lover Crown and her drug dealer Sportin’ Life work against Bess to pull the pair apart.

Composer George Gershwin, who also composed Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris, infuses a wonderful operatic score with jazz, gospel and blues influence, lush orchestral underscoring and big spiritual chorus numbers. The opera also contains many songs which have become popular jazz and blues covers, including the well-known ‘Summertime’, ‘A Woman Is a Sometime Thing’, ‘I Got Plenty O Nuttin’ and ‘I loves you, Porgy’.

Porgy and Bess by Gershwin, Sat 27 Oct 2018, From (2018/2018), Directed by James Robinson,, Conductor John Wilson, London Coliseum, London, United Kingdom

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