Was both Porgy and Bess and Giulio Cesare composed by a person with the first name George?
Porgy and Bess Porgy and Bess is an English-language opera by the American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto written by author DuBose Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin. It was adapted from Heyward's play "Porgy", itself an adaptation of his 1925 novel of the same name.
Douglas Watt (critic) Douglas Benjamin Watt (January 20, 1914 – September 29, 2009) was an American theater critic who spent nearly six decades covering Broadway theatre — and then Off Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway — for the "Daily News" and also reported on classical music and opera for "The New Yorker". He helped establish "Porgy and Bess" as a classic after it failed in an earlier Broadway run and helped foster the careers of playwrights such as Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams.