My man's gone now
Opera details:
Opera title: | Porgy and Bess |
Composer: | George Gershwin |
Language: | English |
Synopsis: | Porgy and Bess Synopsis |
Libretto: | Porgy and Bess Libretto |
Translation(s): | Not entered yet. |
Aria details:
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Serena |
Voice(s): | Soprano |
Act: | 1 |
| Previous scene: | Summertime and living is easy |
| Next scene: | We're leavin' for the Promise Land |
" Summertime "
Singer(s): Anne Brown Abbie MitchellLive performance : Irini Raikou
Rearrangement
live version : George Trantalidis
Music : George Gershwin
Lyrics : DuBose Heyward
"Summertime" is an aria composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, although the song is also co-credited to Ira Gershwin by ASCAP.
The song soon became a popular and much recorded jazz standard, described as "without doubt... one of the finest songs the composer ever wrote....Gershwin's highly evocative writing brilliantly mixes elements of jazz and the song styles of blacks in the southeast United States from the early twentieth century." Heyward's lyrics for "Summertime" and "My Man's Gone Now" have been called "the best lyrics in the musical theater" by composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.
The song was first performed on a public stage at the opening of Porgy and Bess on 10 October 1935, by Abbie Mitchell as Clara and Anne Brown as Bess.
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Watch videos with other singers performing My man's gone now:
1 - Audra McDonald
1 - Anne Brown
1 - Angela Brown
1 - Latonia Moore
1 - Leontyne Price
2 - Florence Quivar
1 - Cynthia Clarey
1 - Jessye Norman
1 - Abbie Mitchell
1 - Renée Fleming
1 - Deborah Voigt
1 - Ruby Elzy
1 - Harolyn Blackwell
1 - Janai Brugger
1 - Janet Williams
1 - Roberta Alexander
1 - Sharon Coste
1 - Angel Blue
1 - Helen Jepson
2 - Risë Stevens
1 - Marie-Josée Lord
1 - Marie-Josée Lord
1 - Measha Brueggergosman
1 - Abbie Mitchell
1 - Anne Brown
1 - Audra McDonald
1 - Leontyne Price
1 - Ruby Elzy
1 - Audra McDonald
1 - Ruby Elzy
2 - Florence Quivar
2 - Isola Jones
Other videos of the same singers performing My man's gone now:
1 - Audra McDonald
1 - Audra McDonald
1 - Latonia Moore
1 - Audra McDonald
1 - Audra McDonald
1 - Leontyne Price
1 - Abbie Mitchell
1 - Angela Brown
1 - Leontyne Price
1 - Leontyne Price
1 - Jessye Norman
1 - Jessye Norman
1 - Audra McDonald
1 - Cynthia Clarey
1 - Renée Fleming
1 - Ruby Elzy
1 - Ruby Elzy
1 - Anne Brown
1 - Audra McDonald
1 - Leontyne Price
1 - Leontyne Price
1 - Helen Jepson
1 - Renée Fleming
1 - Anne Brown
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
Ora il mio uomo se n'é andato,
non potrò più ascoltare
i suoi passi stanchi
salire per le scale. Ah!
Vecchio Dolore
vieni a farmio compagnia,
sussurrandomi all'orecchio
quando dico le preghiere. Ah!
Non è il lavoro che mi preoccupa.
Io e il lavoro siamo passeggieri,
che viaggiano insieme
versoo la Terra Promessa.
Ma anche Nonno Dolore
sta marciando sempre con me
e mi dice che ora sono vecchia
perché ho perduto il mio uomo.
Nonno Dooore stando presso il fuoco
mi giace accanto tutta la notte.
E mi dice la stessa cosa mattina,
mezzogiono e sera:
che sono sola
ora che il mio uomo è morto. Ah!
English Libretto or Translation:
Not entered yet.External links for My man's gone now
| Sheetmusic for aria |  Sheetmusicplus.com |
| Sheetmusic for opera | Sheetmusicplus.com |
| MP3's for this aria | on Amazon.com |
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