This Saturday, the Marian Anderson Historical Society will host its winter concert featuring Porgy and Bess, a classic all-Black opera by George Gershwin. The performance will also serve as an aide to the Marian Anderson Museum, which encountered significant flood damage a years ago and is still in the process of reconstruction and recovery. Show support for the essential Philly institution if you can!
Then, we've got Giselle on view, but this time, the story gets a shift in perspective thanks to the Philadelphia Ballet and Angel Corella:
In many productions, Count Albrecht is danced as a thoughtless nobleman leading on the naive girl for sport. It’s the obvious interpretation, but Corella works with his dancers to act out a more emotional Albrecht: “I think that he was really in love with Giselle, that he could have spent the rest of his life with her, but he is caught in a place between the love of his life, and what society is telling him he has to do.”
After some ballet and opera, be sure to catch a movie or two in celebration of Women's History Month, and check out the roundup to discover some cool new exhibitions opening up this week.
Be good, Philly!
Kyle V. Hiller
BSR associate editor
