| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - the debate over whether it is a musical or an opera or something in between, and the matter of its African American cast, which necessitated a run at a commercial theater, since the Met had no black singers (and would not until 1955).The race question is not simply a matter of personnel, of course: The depiction of poor Southern black life in the opera, based on DuBose Heyward's 1925 novel Porgy,
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