Porgy and Bess
/ˌpɔːɡi ən ˈbes/
/ˌpɔːrɡi ən ˈbes/
- a musical play (1935) by George and Ira Gershwin which has been called 'America's first folk opera'. It was based on the 1925 novel Porgy by Dubose Heyward, and is about poor African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina. The main characters are the lovers Porgy, who lives by begging, and Bess. Its best-known songs are Summertime, I Got Plenty o' Nothing and It Ain't Necessarily So. Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge were the stars of the film version (1959).
乔治和艾拉·格什温（Ira Gershwin）的音乐剧（1935年），被称为“美国第一部民间歌剧”。它基于1925年Dubose Heyward的小说《 Porgy》，是关于南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿的贫穷非洲裔美国人的。主要人物是情人乞gy和贝丝。它最著名的歌曲是《夏日》，《我什么也没》，也不一定如此。西德尼·普瓦捷（Sidney Poitier）和多萝西·丹德里奇（Dorothy Dandridge）是电影版（1959年）的主角。