George Gershwin called Porgy and Bess an opera. Yet he chose to debut the work at the Alvin Theatre in New York in October of 1935 because he wanted people who would never get to an opera house to be ...

" It's an extraordinarily rich story," said. Khori Dastoor with more than a hint of awe in her voice. Houston Grand Opera's general director and CEO is talking about "Porgy and Bess," George ...

Following its critically acclaimed UK debut in 2009, the globally renowned Cape Town Opera brings the rarely performed George Gershwin masterpiece Porgy and Bess to Birmingham for the very first time.

The Houston Grand Opera opened its 2025-26 Friday season with George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" in a performance that showcased an array of star-quality soloists, a superb chorus, and a gritty ...

Anticipation is running high for Seattle Opera‘s Porgy and Bess which opens this weekend. George Gershwin’s work is America’s most popular and controversial opera. Porgy and Bess is easily the most ...

In honor of the 114th birthday of American composer George Gershwin, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra to perform "Porgy and Bess," the classic "American folk opera" ...

Today's Beautiful Music is a fantastic concert performance of George Gershwin's opera PORGY AND BESS. The 2019 performance features soprano Adina Aaron, and bass-baritone Musa Ngqungwana, with the ...

A jazz interpretation of the American opera “Porgy and Bess” debuts this weekend at the New Vic Theater in Santa Barbara, starring actors Elijah Rock and Karole Foreman. Composed by George Gershwin, ...

In the third or fourth phase of his illustrious career, Miles Davis recorded an album called Porgy and Bess. The title didn’t indicate that he was playing the music that George Gershwin had created ...

With George Gershwin’s melancholy melody and DuBose Heyward’s colloquial poetry, the opening aria from ‘Porgy and Bess’ remains, 90 years after its premiere, among the most beloved songs in American ...

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sara Bareilles, Joshua Henry, Jeanine Tesori, Jason Robert Brown and New York Times writers and editors pick 13 songs to seal the deal. Some of the best music I’ve ever heard was ...

When I read that the Met, in the program notes for James Robinson’s production of PORGY AND BESS, called it “a supremely American operatic masterpiece” I couldn’t help but think of Stephen Sondheim’s ...