Even so, "Porgy and Bess" survives in its vivid depiction of social issues ... The doomed Jake (baritone Gregory Emanuel Rahming) is one of the nice guys of the show. He and his wife Clara (soprano ...

It was 5° above zero when the 85 members of the Porgy and Bess company got to Leningrad, the first American theatrical troupe ever to visit Russia. Jammed on the station platform to greet them ...

What is the Story of Porgy and Bess? Set in the 1930s in an African-American Charleston neighborhood known as Catfish Row, Porgy and Bess centers on the tragic love story of the cripple beggar ...

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