Bess you is my woman George Gershwin / Arr. Roger Niese

Titel / Title: Bess you is my woman - from the Opera Porgy and Bess
Herausgeber / Publisher: Baton Music
Instrumentation: Soprano, Bass-Baritone and Symphonic Band
Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen

Porgy and bess is an opera with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Heyward. It is bades on Heyward's novel Porgy and the play of the same name that he co-wrote with his wife Dorothy. All three works deal with African American life in the ficitious Catfish Row in Charleston, South Carolina in the early 1930s.
Originally conceived by Gershwin as an American Folk Opera, the work was first performed in the fall of 1935, but was not widely accepted in the United States as a legitimate opera until the late 1970s and '80s: it is now considered part of the standard operatic repertoire.
Porgy and Bess is also regularly performed internationally. Despite this success, the opera has been controversial: some from the outset have considered it recist.