Performing Catfish Row in the Soviet Union: The Everyman Opera Company and Porgy and Bess, 1955–56

For three weeks in 1955 and 1956 the Everyman Opera Company staged Porgy and Bess in Leningrad and Moscow. In the previous two years, the Robert Breen and Blevins Davis production of Gershwin's opera had toured Europe and Latin America, funded by the U.S. State Department. Yet when Breen negoti...

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