Here is a rough translation of the article on the web page mentioned above by Paul:
PORGY AND BESS for Summertime Award
Only in January and February
Under the telephone hotline 030 - 343 84343 or directly to the ticket window of the Deutsche Oper Berlin | premiere on 4 July 2008
In January and February granted the Deutsche Opera Berlin Quick Entschlossenen by calling 030 - 343 84343 or directly to the ticket window of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Bismarckstraße 35 | 10627 Berlin) Summertime-price of 20% discount on all performances of PORGY AND BESS. PORGY AND BESS in the staging of the Cape Town Opera presents the love story between the gutherzigen disabled and the genussorientierten young woman in a South African ghetto. The stage setting captures the current reality of life that one of its recent history of difficult subscribed authentically country. The occupation with South African, in part gastierenden world, artists makes this co-production with a touching opera experience.
The life pulsates quickly and violently in the narrow streets, where poor fishermen, small families, dealers, drug addicts, gamblers live. Porgy, gentle and sealed, is used by the residents because of its Verkrüppelung just pitied as mocks whether his obvious weakness for Bess, a beauty, the narcotics consumed and always vulnerable to exactly the wrong man. As Bess' Crown lovers in serious drug ecstasy to the murderer, he must flee and Bess shut the doors. Only Porgy takes them. The love transforms both. But happiness is only short-lived. Like a hurricane breaks Crown in the village. Finally Porgy kills him, and is arrested. He is still no day in prison when the dealer Sportin 'Life of Bess heranmacht. It goes together in a new life in New York… Followed by Porgy, the - from prison after a few days dismissed - not live without them.
As Gershwin [1898 - 1937] at the age of 35 years with the setting of PORGY AND BESS began, he was one of the most successful Broadway composers of his generation. Rhapsody in Blue, Concerto in F and the film An American in Paris have made him famous. George Gershwin was 1898 [Jacob Gershovitz then still] in New York as a child of Russian Jews emigrierter born. In the truest sense "on the road" he encountered the music, later by his teacher at Charles Hampitzer Classical facility. When he was in the Tin Pan Alley, the New York Stock Exchange song, song purchasers of the works of musical composers vorspielte, it was only a matter of time that he began to compose himself. Of its 18 musicals were at least LADY BE GOOD, OH KAY arrived, and CRAZY GIRL OF THEE I SING absolute bestseller. 1926 was Gershwin on DuBose Heywards novel Porgy, which fascinated him immediately. He sought the rights, and could be against his colleagues Jerome Kern, because he is the tragedy of the substance would consider. So he created a "Folk Opera" in which durchkomponierte symphony with Spiritual, blues and jazz elements unite. At the premiere of this work was with surprise; the following performance secured Gershwin World Series glory. Songs like Summertime, I Got Plenty o 'Nuttin, It is not necessarily so, I loves You, Porgy, from jazz and blues is inconceivable. This contributed next to the world famous performance series edits by Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Ray Charles, as well as recordings by the Cleveland Orchestra under Lorin Maazel and the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle. Gershwin himself was this triumphal not live. He died in 1937 at the age of only 39 years.
4th July - 1 August 2008
The Gershwin: PORGY AND BESS
Musical direction: Willie Waters; staging: Angelo Gobbato; stage costumes: Peter Cazalet, choirs: Albert Horne
There sing Janinah Burnett / Tsakane Valentine / Nobulumko Mngxekeza, Xolela Sixaba, Fikile Mvinjelva, Kaiser Nkosi / Otto Maidi, Victor Ryan Robertson / Pandulwasi Maseti uva
Orchestra of the Deutsche Opera Berlin / Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Cape Town Opera Voice of the Nation Chorus
It reads to me that there are three singers taking the lead roll, between those dates, so for those wishing to make bookings I will contact Tsak and see if she has her own firm dates yet.
