Джорж Гершвин - джаз-опера Порги и Бесс - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

The opera in the three actions of George Gershvin on the libretto (in English) Dubos Hayard and Iira Gershvin, based on the play "Porgi" of Dubos and Dorothy Hayard.

Characters:

Porgy, legless beggar (bass baritone)

Krown, loader (baritone)

Bess, his girlfriend (soprano)

Jack, fisherman (baritone)

Clara, his wife (soprano)

Robbins, inhabitant Kathfish (tenor)

Sirina, his wife (soprano)

Sporting Life, drug dealer (tenor)

Peter, honey seller (tenor)

Owner of the Bureau of funeral supplies (baritone)

Action time: 1920s.

Place of action: Charleston, South Carolina, USA.

First performance: Boston, September 30, 1935.

The play by Dubos and Dorothy Hayard Porgie was quite a decent success. But when Dubos Hayard and Aira Gershvin made an opera libretto out of her, and Aira’s brother, George, wrote music, this made the impression of an exploding bomb. The general opinion of criticism was as follows: "finally the first real and quite American opera." It was in 1935. From the very beginning of its triumphal procession according to America’s opera scenes - first in Boston, then on Broadway - it invariably remains in a modern opera repertoire.

She reached Europe in 1945; Then the opera was delivered in Switzerland and Denmark by troupes, mainly consisting of European actors. But it became truly popular in Europe only after it was shown by the American Negro troupe, which made a European tour. It was in the 1952/53 season. Not a single American opera, created both before and after Porgie and Bess, even a huge success of operas, Jan-Carlo Menotti, apparently, shake the so strong position of Porga and Bess in the musical life of the Western world. And even in the east, at least in Russia, it was met with enthusiasm.

Action I

Scene 1 is a large yard in the fishing village of Kathfish-Row (Charleston, Carolina). Once aristocrats lived here, but now it is inhabited by blacks. The atmosphere of the hot southern summer night is transmitted by a wonderful lullabies, "Summertime" ("Summer Days"), which is sung by the young wife and mother, Clara. Her husband Jack expresses the attitude of men to the opposite sex in these parts in these parts in the fun song “A Woman is a sometime Thing” (“Woman is an unreliable thing”). In one corner of the courtyard there is a game in the bone, in the other - they dance. A legless beggar Porgy enters a cart drawn up by a goat. Everyone loves him here. Men meet him with welcoming cries and at the same time ironic replicas about the fact that he "unevenly breathes" to the girl Kruna Bess. In the prickly bitterness and the reciteres “When God Make Criple, He Mean Him to Be Lonely” (“Creating a cripple, God gave him loneliness) Porgie sings about the hopelessness of his life, while arguing that women do not interest him do not interest him . Players in the bones are scolding, especially when Krown enters the game, a local bully, which is already impressive. Soon, under the influence of the “powder of happiness” (drug), which Sporting Life supplied him, he becomes very aggressive. A fight flashes, Krown kills one of the players and immediately runs away, throwing his girlfriend Bess. One of the guys, the same Sporting Life, a drug dealer, is trying - unsuccessfully - to take Bess with him to New York. Bess rushes about asylum, but all the inhabitants of Kathfish Row slamming their doors before her.

Not such Porgy. He always loved Bess, but did not dare to approach her - after all, he was a cripple. But now she is in a hopeless position. He calls her to him.

Scene 2 occurs in the room of Sirina, where Robbins mourn, her husband, killed by Kruna. The neighbors of Sirina are now gathered in order to sing over her husband’s body and collect the desired amount of money for the funeral according to the Negro customs. The burial song that is torn off the soul sounds. Porgi enters, with him Bess. He also wants to contribute to the funeral of Robbins, and, being by nature by his leader, he takes the main part in