The Origin Story
This is how old opera is (about).
What is over 400 years old?
The highest female operatic voice
What is Soprano?
The young mother who had a premonition about the weather.
Who is Clara?
What is 1935?
The traditional language of opera.
What is Italian?
Porgy and Bess composer.
Who is Georgy Gershwin?
The lowest male operatic voice
What is Baritone?
Our untraditional male lead who is disabled and loves deeply.
Porgy
What is the Great Depression?
Blonde, Viking, Valkyrie, Braids...
Who is Brunhilde?
A production where the dialogue is entirely sung.
What is an opera?
The highest male operatic voice
What is Tenor?
Our complicated female lead who transitions for Mezzo-Soprano to Soprano
Bess
The location that Sportin' Life, Bess and Porgy end up going.
What is New York?
Court case that justifies Porgy getting away with murdering Crown.
What is Massachusetts vs. Lizzie Borden?
What is an aria?
The lowest female operatic voice
What is Mezzo Soprano?
The observant community elder that sees all but rarely intervenes.
The season when Porgy and Bess takes place.
What is summer?
This is how composer George Gershwin was able to musically segregate black and white characters.
What is that white characters did not sing in this opera?
Sung dialogue that moves the story along.
What is recitative?
The voice part that can be represented by two different characters.
The "Honey-Man" who spent 3 weeks in prison because the police could not find Crown.
Peter
The three villains in Porgy and Bess.
Who are/ What are Sportin' Life, Crown and The Hurricane?
True or False: The opera Porgy and Bess began as a book by Dubose Heyward named "Porgy."
True, "Porgy and Bess" was a book called "Porgy" before an opera.