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Really, Porgy and Bess is a jazz opera. It's an opera, there's no doubt about it. But the music is structured undoubtedly jazz. Songs like "Porgy, I's Your Woman Now" have such a jazz sound, even [especially] when sung by trained classical singers.
We have rock operas and rap operas now, and we call them what they are. Porgy and Bess is a jazz opera. One of the reasons it's probably a little more confusing is that this comes from a composer who obviously knew and was well-versed in classical, and chose to use jazz as his style for dramatic purposes.
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~David
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