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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I read that the Met, in the program notes for James Robinson’s production of PORGY AND BESS, called it “a supremely ...

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 ...

First among newcomers was the South African soprano Vuvu Mpofu, making her Met debut in the most conspicuous way imaginable, ...

George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" will be presented Feb. 13 at the Show Me Center. The musical includes the tunes "Summertime," "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'," and "It Ain't Necessarily So." It will ...

For some — including myself, much of the time — the greatest moment in all of music is the clarinet glissando at the opening of “Rhapsody in Blue.” But lately, I have been getting even more of a ...

Michael Sumuel was a high school freshman competing in the all-state auditions when his voice broke. “I was auditioning as a Tenor II. There was some descending line and I remember it started on a ...

We open up the PT encore bag with three short pieces from recent concerts. We start with a concert Trio Solisti gave at the Troy Savings Bank Hall, in Troy, New York. The Trio plays "It Ain't ...

The beloved novel Porgy quietly turned 100 years old this year, nearly unnoticed by the literati. It’s a Charleston story of sex, drugs and violence in a fictional Gullah tenement that inspired global ...

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 ...