OSLO – Anne Wiggins Brown, the African-American soprano who starred as the original Bess in George Gershwin's landmark folk opera "Porgy and Bess" but saw her career limited by racial discrimination, has died at age 96. "Porgy and Bess," first performed in 1935, was based on DuBose Heyward's novel "Porgy" about a crippled beggar in love with Bess and living in the fictional Catfish Row slum in Charleston, South Carolina. It was a rare look in its time at the lives of some African-Americans and has since become a popular opera standard. Brown died Friday in Oslo, where she had...