The Met has done “Porgy and Bess” several times. It took a long time for Gershwin’s opera to come to the Met, but it’s become a popular success.
We are going to Porgy and Bess this weekend. I hope that the performance does not copy the Met’s. Gershwin was a one-of, who combined jazz and bent notes from blues into his compositions. This is the reason Ravel would not take him on as student, because he saw that Gershwin was different and he did not want him to copy classical composers and lose his special gift. The mistake the Met made was to sing Girshwin like you perform any other opera. It comes across flat and unnatural.