Porgy and Bess remains George Gershwin’s magnum opus, with an unforgettable score that includes songs (“Summertime,” “It Ain’t Necessarily So”) later recorded by popular musicians from Billie Holiday ...

You may not know the storyline of Porgy and Bess, but you certainly recognize some of the music, beginning with that standard “Summertime.” Black artistic royalty have been among those who have ...

Soprano Angel Blue as Bess and bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as Porgy in HGO's productionof Porgy and Bess. Credit: Michael Bishop When George Gershwin died in Hollywood in 1937 at the age of 38 from a ...

Lyric Opera of Kansas City’s The Gershwins’ PORGY AND BESS is a vocally commanding and spiritually powerful production, led ...

GIDDENS: Every episode we unpack an aria so you can see what’s inside. Today, it's a song you’ve probably heard a hundred times in all different styles: “Summertime” from the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess ...

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 ...

More than four decades ago, trumpeter Miles Davis collaborated with arranger Gil Evans to produce what many observers look upon as the definitive jazz version of George Gershwin's groundbreaking folk ...

It took two generations and the racial awakening of the civil rights movement for Porgy and Bess to come back home to where it all started. The wildly successful international opera opened on Broadway ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF/AP) - Nathaniel Stampley ached to make the role of Porgy his own in the celebrated 2012 Broadway revival of "Porgy and Bess." Instead, he kept dying. Stampley was an understudy ...

The Gershwin and Heyward estates enlisted Tony-winning Hair and Pippin director Diane Paulus to help bring new context to Porgy and Bess for contemporary audiences, whittling the American folk opera ...

2004 appears to be the year for reevaluation of Miles Davis classics. First came g.org's A New Kind of Blue, applying a more modern bent to the iconic Kind of Blue. Now the Chicago Jazz Orchestra, ...