My Man’s Gone Now

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"My Man’s Gone Now" is a mournful aria from George Gershwin’s opera *Porgy and Bess*, sung by the character Serena as she laments her husband’s death.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf aria
song
appearsInAct Porgy and Bess
surface form: Act I of Porgy and Bess
associatedMovement American musical theatre
American opera
basedOn novel Porgy
cataloguedAs number from Porgy and Bess
characterWhoSings Serena
composer George Gershwin
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
dramaticFunction lament
firstPerformanceWork Porgy and Bess
firstPerformanceYear 1935
genre jazz standard
opera aria
hasForm through-composed aria
hasInstrumentation voice and orchestra
voice and piano (reduction)
hasStyle blues-influenced
jazz-influenced
hasTempoCharacter slow
language English
lyricist DuBose Heyward
Ira Gershwin
mood mournful
notablePerformer Billie Holiday
Ella Fitzgerald
Leontyne Price
Louis Armstrong
Miles Davis
Nina Simone
Oscar Peterson
Sarah Vaughan
novelAuthor DuBose Heyward
partOfOpera Porgy and Bess
placeOfFirstPerformance Boston
premiereTheatre Colonial Theatre, Boston
surface form: Colonial Theatre
publisherOfVocalScore Harms Inc.
recordedAs live performance recording
studio recording
setIn Catfish Row
Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
surface form: Charleston, South Carolina
subjectOf classical vocal recitals
numerous jazz arrangements
theme death
grief
vocalType soprano

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Porgy and Bess notableSong My Man’s Gone Now
Serena notableAria My Man’s Gone Now
this entity surface form: “My Man’s Gone Now”
Nina Simone Sings the Blues hasTrack My Man’s Gone Now
this entity surface form: My Man's Gone Now
Nina Simone Sings the Blues notableSong My Man’s Gone Now
this entity surface form: My Man's Gone Now
Nina Simone Sings the Blues hasCoverSong My Man’s Gone Now
this entity surface form: My Man's Gone Now