Product DescriptionOn EMI Classics 49568; 3 CD's; Many people consider this 1988 recording from England's Glyndebourne Festival starring Willard White, Cynthia Haymon, Harolyn Blackwell, Cynthia Clarey, Damon Evans, Bruce Hubbard, and Gregg Baker to be the best one ever made. And, even with minor differences in critical opinion here and there, this is definitely recognized as being among the best!! Audra McDonald is starring on Broadway in "Porgy and Bess," and if you enjoyed "Porgy and Bess" with Audra, you will love it in this marvellous Glyndebourne Festival performance which has become one of the standards by which all others are judged. The singing here is superb, and Simon Rattle conducts with excitement, devotion, and passion. Many of the singers in this production sang in "Porgy and Bess" at the Metropolitan Opera when it was performed there in the mid 1980's to early 1990's, and they certainly served as artistic inspirations to the cast of the current Broadway revival.