“Standing in front of a large studio filled with some 90 singers and dancers, is a young, diminutive Black woman whose profile is reminiscent of a regal African sculpture thanks to a head wrap that forms a bun atop her head, large silver hoops dangling from her ears, a prominent brow that slopes toward tortoise shell eye glasses framing eyes intensely focused on the rehearsal of one of the show-stopping numbers she, Camille A. Brown, has created for the Metropolitan Opera’s latest production of George Gershwin’s “Porgy & Bess.”’
