It Ain't Necessarily So from Porgy and Bess

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[Frommerhold]

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[thereverse13]

i was there! they are fanthastic!

[TheJanRi]

0:13 looks like fun..

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[Thrsti4anime]

Man i love this opera! the one that I watched in my small town was AMAZING!

[ReneODeay]

all operas are musical, but not all musicals are opera. rare to find one that can be both? maybe not.

[THEMAN200711]

Gershwin wrote Porgy and Bess as an opera. Therefore it is an opera and we should not debate his original intentions. Secondly, Ellington, like many African-Americans, disapprove of P & B due to the storyline, as it depicts Blacks in a negative view. However, the music and form of P & B makes it an opera and not the storyline. This also pertains to Treemonisha by Scott Joplin.

[Angelscnbsexi2]

I am from a different generation....Porgy and Bess was the first Opera I have ever seen as a teenager! I appreciated it when I first saw it and still appreciate it...The story line depicts life in the ghetto....I am from humble beginnings. I was able to relate and not be offended. It is a classic...Thank you Mr Gershwin for addressing the social issues we are still dealing with today....West Side Story is another one (immigration)

[aswallom]

Nice performance...and also impressive on Warsaw's part for assembling the cast in the first place (I don't think anyone wanted to see Poles in Blackface anyways).

[aswallom]

As for whether or not Porgy and Bess is an Opera: It entirely depends on who you ask, many consider it to be one, although there are those who disagree. But as Porgy is the result of Gershwin's synthesis of several different musical genres, I don't see why it is so difficult so say that it is neither Opera not Operetta or Musical, but rather (to quote the Great Duke Ellington, who incidentally disapproved of Porgy and Bess at the time of it's premire) perhaps it is "Beyond Category."

[aswallom]

And also, just to clarify, all an aria is is a solo melodic vocal piece with instrumental accompaniment that can be perceived as a distinct unit from the music preceding and following it. Actually, most songs you will ever hear are technically arias; only Opera (and to a lesser extent, choral works) needs to even use the term, because they are the only commonly heard musical forms that actually go directly from one sung section to another.

[aswallom]

For example: When you hear two people singing together, that is not an aria, but rather a duet. It is followed by a perfunctory bit of sung business necessary to advance the plot, the recitative, which has no deliberate melodic content and is therefore not an aria. Then one character sings a distinct melodic line to the accompaniment of at least one instrument...THAT is an aria.

[drlawitts]

the chorus echo aint echoin' Sportin' life proper!

[cnbayer]

it's not an aria. It written by George and Ira Gershwin, unless you liken their work to arias.

[leoray1234]

Porgy and Bess is technically an opera - the only one they wrote. From my understanding, an opera is qualified by the requirement that every line of dialogue is sung, (unlike a musical)

[ouinonyes]

well there are dialogue lines in the Magic Flute

[louis621]

well what about the opera comique??? like Carmen, where a lot of the play isnt sung but spoken instead??? i mean that was french and Gershwin was an admirer of french music, maybe thats the type of opera he strived for...

[turritorony]

great theatre performance

[aisberg13]

i love that song.. :D:D:D:D!!!

[RabiaB]

Great song. Thanks a lot for uploading it!

[KleinerFarbklecks]

Great!

[elegie84]

Great performance! I'm now learning this song for my concert, I like it very much. I wonder is it an aria?

[leoray1234]

The 'aria' of this show would have to be 'Summertime'. From my experience, arias tend to be the slowest-moving pieces in an opera, usually without a strict tempo, as this one has.

[Gozzillacia]

I guess this is what Youtube is for - brilliant, beautiful, glorious.

[Operomania]

Wspaniałe wykonanie!