In January 1991, eight members of the SAS regiment embarked upon a top secret mission that was to infiltrate them behind enemy lines. They were to sever the underground communication link between Baghdad and north-west Iraq, and to seek and destroy mobile Scud launchers. This is a chronicle of super[...]
Created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, "Porgy and Bess" has been both embraced and reviled since its debut in 1935. In this comprehensive account, Ellen Noonan examines the opera's long history of invention and reinvention as a barometer of twentie[...]