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Porgy and Bess

opera composed in 1934 by George Gershwin
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Porgy and Bess

Summary

Porgy and Bess is a dramatico-musical work[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of dramatico_musical_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,586 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Porgy and Bess's instance of is recorded as dramatico-musical work[3].
  • Porgy and Bess's composer is recorded as George Gershwin[4].
  • Porgy and Bess's librettist is recorded as Ira Gershwin[5].
  • Porgy and Bess's librettist is recorded as DuBose Heyward[6].
  • Porgy and Bess's genre is melodrama[7].
  • Porgy and Bess's based on is recorded as Porgy[8].
  • Porgy and Bess was performed by George Gershwin[9].
  • Porgy and Bess's discography is recorded as Porgy and Bess discography[10].
  • Porgy and Bess's Commons category is recorded as Porgy and Bess[11].
  • Porgy and Bess's soundtrack release is recorded as Highlights from "Porgy and Bess"[12].
  • Porgy and Bess's soundtrack release is recorded as Selections from George Gershwin's Folk Opera Porgy and Bess[13].
  • Porgy and Bess's soundtrack release is recorded as Porgy and Bess[14].
  • Porgy and Bess's soundtrack release is recorded as Porgy & Bess[15].
  • Porgy and Bess's soundtrack release is recorded as Porgy and Bess[16].
  • Porgy and Bess's language of work or name is recorded as English[17].
  • Porgy and Bess comprises I Got Plenty o' Nuttin[18].
  • Porgy and Bess comprises Summertime[19].
  • Porgy and Bess comprises I Loves You, Porgy[20].
  • Porgy and Bess comprises It Ain't Necessarily So[21].
  • Porgy and Bess comprises Bess, You Is My Woman Now[22].
  • Porgy and Bess comprises Bess, o where's my Bess![23].
  • Porgy and Bess comprises My Man's Gone Now[24].
  • Porgy and Bess comprises Listen to Yo' Daddy Warn You (A Woman is a Sometime Thing)[25].
  • Porgy and Bess comprises Oh, I'm a goin' out (It take a long pull to get there)[26].
  • Porgy and Bess comprises Buzzard keep on flyin'[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Opera[28]

  • Genre(s): opera[29]

  • Community tags: opera[30]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 1094de73-1671-4a6f-a870-3442756cab2f[31]

Why It Matters

Porgy and Bess ranks in the top 2% of dramatico_musical_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,586 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Related Entities

George Gershwin Ira Gershwin

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Grove Music Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Grove Music Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Grove Music Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [31] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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