Overview
Character Name
Bess
Show
Gender
Female
Adult
Lead
Voice
Soprano
Vocal Range
High Note: G♯5/A♭5
Low Note: D#4/Eb4
Vocal Technique
Operatic
Time & Place
Catfish Row, Charleston, South Carolina, 1930s
Analysis
African-American. Southern accent. Bess is a beautiful, haunted, captivating woman from Catfish Row. She has long been in an unhealthy and abusive relationship with Crown. Their lifestyle together ― full of booze, drugs, and sex ― earn her the disrespect of all her
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