In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
The true-life drama about a handicapped Baltimore woman living on welfare who organized a sandlot baseball team and ended up coaching more than 50,000 boys and girls over nearly 40 years.
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachino Rossini's epic opus ERMIONE is based on Jean Racine's play "Andromache.
Adapted from the opera written by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky.
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THE GERSHWINS PORGY AND BESS FROM SAN FRANCISCO OPERA | Teaser | PBS
Premieres Friday October 17 2014 at 9:00 ET This production of Porgy and Bess from ...
"Porgy and Bess" (Amsterdam 1987)
From the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam comes this performance of George Gershwin's opera. The cast features Willard White (Porgy); Faye Robinson (Bess); ...
The Ongoing Evolution of "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess"
Stars Norm Lewis (Porgy) and Audra McDonald (Bess) join director Diane Paulus to discuss the evolution and the current ...
Living Arts Inc. -- Porgy And Bess
Gershwin's Porgy and Bess recorded at Polish National Opera in Warsaw.
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Today‘s eastern Slovakia. The historian Rimko returns here after many years with his young lover to search for answers to the difficult questions of his own life attitudes, mistakes and moral debts in the land of his childhood.
He is a writer and Ángela, a mature woman, is his domestic employee. Since he can't find inspiration, he decides to accompany her on her work day to other houses.
An abusive husband is angered that his wife is having trouble conceiving a child. One night, after leaving his house following a fight, she overdoses on pills.
Documentary film about life in the slums of Palermo, Sicily. Revisiting the family featured in a 1961 documentary from Michael Roemer, and Robert Young (the father/ father in law of this film's directors).