“If you’re going to stage Gershwin’s opera, this is how,” raved the Guardian when the new production premiered in London in 2018. David Robertson conducts a dynamic cast, featuring the ...

Angel Blue, soprano superstar and Los Angeles native, stars in the Metropolitan Opera’s new production ... one for Gershwin’s Porgy And Bess, as well as Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up ...

It was 5° above zero when the 85 members of the Porgy and Bess company got to Leningrad ... 20-year-old George Gershwin-DuBose Heyward folk opera about poor Negroes in the South.

Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.