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 ...

The great opera singer Sir Willard White recalls his experiences on the first televised production of George Gershwin’s classic opera Porgy and Bess. Show more The great opera singer Sir Willard ...

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

HGO will open the 2025-26 season with the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, marking 50 years since the company first presented the “folk opera,” restoring it to its creators’ full original ...