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LIEPĀJA ART FORUM. CONCERT VERSION OF THE OPERA "PORGY AND BESS"

11. AUGUST 19.00



Thursday
2016


George Gershwin’s opera “Porgy and Bess” is undoubtedly the most played American opera. This is a story about love and its inconstancy, passion, crime, domestic tragedies and simple everyday pleasures told in brilliant musical language.

Director: Viesturs Kairišs.

Cast: Latonia Moore (USA), Jermaine Smith (USA), Lester Lynch (UK), Rodney Clark, Margarita Vilsone, Sonora Vaice, Mihails Čuļpajevs, Ilona Bagele and others.

Participating: The Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, youth choir “Kamēr…”. Conductor: Andris Poga.

The authors
of the opera “Porgy and Bess” are George Gershwin, Dubose & Dorothy Heyward and Ira Gershwin.


Venue: THE GREAT HALL

Organised by Great Amber