From the Royal Albert Hall, London.

"I have more tunes in my head than I could put down on paper in a hundred years," said Gershwin, and, in the composer's centenary year, his evergreen folk-opera comes to the Proms for the first time. Its story of human aspirations provides a vivid political parable for our times.

Gershwin Porgy and Bess - BBC Singers, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Wayne Marshall

Act 1

7.25 Broadway or Carnegie Hall - or Both?
Rodney Greenberg investigates Gershwin's desire to be taken seriously as a composer of concert music.

7.45 Act 2

9.05 Did Gershwin Get It Wrong?
Anthropologist Christopher Davis asks if Gershwin's opera demeans the community which Porgy and Bess inhabit.

9.25 Act 3

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