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Beautiful Music NOW - Porgy and Bess

WSHU | By Suzanne Bona
Published February 14, 2024 at 10:02 AM EST
Soprano Adina Aaron, and bass-baritone Musa Ngqungwana perform with the Cape Town Opera Chorus, and Frankfurt Radio Symphony.
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Soprano Adina Aaron, and bass-baritone Musa Ngqungwana perform with the Cape Town Opera Chorus, and Frankfurt Radio Symphony.

Today's Beautiful Music is a fantastic concert performance of George Gershwin's opera PORGY AND BESS. The 2019 performance features soprano Adina Aaron, and bass-baritone Musa Ngqungwana, with the Cape Town Opera Chorus, and Frankfurt Radio Symphony, conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada.

You can read the Metropolitan Opera's synopsis of PORGY AND BESS.
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Suzanne Bona
Suzanne Bona is the host and executive producer of Sunday Baroque, a nationally syndicated weekly radio show of Baroque and early music which she originated on WSHU in 1987.
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