{"id":16110,"date":"2019-10-24T11:08:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T11:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/?p=16110"},"modified":"2022-10-13T22:05:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T22:05:56","slug":"mets-porgy-bess-will-feature-all-black-chorus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/mets-porgy-bess-will-feature-all-black-chorus\/","title":{"rendered":"Met\u2019s \u2018Porgy &#038; Bess\u2019 will feature all-Black chorus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of America\u2019s favorite operas returns to the Met for the first time in nearly 30 years. James Robinson\u2019s stylish production transports audiences to Catfish Row on the Charleston waterfront, vibrant with the music, dancing, emotion, and heartbreak of its inhabitants. \u201cIf you\u2019re going to stage Gershwin\u2019s opera, this is how,\u201d raved the\u00a0Guardian\u00a0when the new production premiered in London in 2018. David Robertson conducts a dynamic cast, featuring the sympathetic duo of Eric Owens and Angel Blue in the title roles and an all-star ensemble that includes Janai Brugger, Latonia Moore, Denyce Graves, Frederick Ballentine, Alfred Walker, and Ryan Speedo Green.<\/p>\n<p>This new production from The Metropolitan Opera runs through February 1, 2020, read more at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metopera.org\/season\/2019-20-season\/porgy-and-bess\/\">https:\/\/www.metopera.org\/season\/2019-20-season\/porgy-and-bess\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of America\u2019s favorite operas returns to the Met for the first time in nearly 30 years. James Robinson\u2019s stylish production transports audiences to Catfish Row on the Charleston waterfront, vibrant with the music, dancing, emotion, and heartbreak of its inhabitants. \u201cIf you\u2019re going to stage Gershwin\u2019s opera, this is how,\u201d raved the\u00a0Guardian\u00a0when the new&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musicuntold-blog","category-97","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16243,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16110\/revisions\/16243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}