Welll...... Except for the actual 1935 libretto's direction just before Porgy's initial entrance:
(Scipio opens one side of iron gate. Porgy enters in goat cart; crowd greets him.) And then there's the line in the final scene in which Porgy shouts "Bring my goat!" and just a moment later, the stage direction reads: (Mingo leads goat and cart over, Porgy holds up arms and is helped into cart) .....just before Porgy sings "I'm on my way." Best, Les Les Marsden Founding Music Director and Conductor, The Mariposa Symphony Orchestra Music and Mariposa? Ahhhhh, Paradise!!! http://arts-mariposa.org/symphony.html http://www.geocities.com/~jbenz/lesbio.html ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark D Lew To: Finale-List 3 Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 6:09 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] OT: goats in opera (was Can you spot the fake?) On May 10, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Aaron Rabushka wrote: > "Porgy and Bess," by some chance? Porgy rides around in a goat-cart, but nothing in the libretto suggests an actual goat pulling it. Porgy propels himself with his strong arms. Meyerbeer's _Dinorah_, on the other hand, does feature a goat that is central to the story and appears prominently on stage ... but that opera, in spite of the one famous coloratura aria, is hardly produced anymore. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
