Avignon Off Festival 2025: Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" by the Voices of Overseas
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Ludivine Turinay and Joseph DeCange in "Porgy and Bess" at the Overseas Voice Competition. Overseas Voice Competition
From July 6th to 10th, as part of the Avignon Off Festival, George Gershwin's opera takes over the Chapel of the Incarnate Word. The show provides an opportunity to applaud young artists revealed by the Voices of Overseas.
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I subscribeAvignon, at its off-the-beaten-track festival, is offering this year the chance to hear the talented Martinican soprano Livia Louis-Joseph Dogué perform a hit from the operatic repertoire, George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess . Created in 1935, this opera, intended for African-American singers, established itself as a remarkable synthesis of Western tradition, the then-burgeoning jazz scene, and popular music.
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