Talk:George Gershwin
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an African-American version of the Carmen story
No, no, no. Someone is thinking of Carmen Jones, a 1940s Billy Rose production, with lyrics and libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II and music adapted from Bizet. Porgy and Bess was based on DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy. Dpbsmith 20:39, 21 May 2007 (EDT)
Treemonisha
"Porgy and Bess was loosely based upon Scott Joplin's opera Treemonisha."
I don't think so.
Among other things, the opera was barely known and not performed until it was rediscoverd in the 1970s.
For another, I can't think of any similarities whatsoever in the respective storylines. Treemonisha takes place in a rural setting on a plantation in Arkansas, Porgy and Bess in an urban environment--Charleston, South Carolina in the 1930s... etc. etc.
Dpbsmith 20:26, 25 August 2007 (EDT)
