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If there is one opera lost or won by its chorus and characters, it’s George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. In this perfect storm of a story, it’s all about the tight-knit fishing community that cradles, ...

Exclusive: Behind the scenes with Kwamé Ryan for his Met Opera debut, conducting “Porgy and Bess.” It was a journey years in ...

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess: Musical. Music by George Gershwin. Book by DuBose Heyward. Lyrics by Heyward and Ira Gershwin. Directed by Diane Paulus. Through Dec. 8. $40-$210, subject to change.

George Gershwin called Porgy and Bess an "American folk opera." It was his most ambitious undertaking. And, from the very beginning, it was a source of intense controversy. Could it be a true opera if ...

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 ...

ACT ONE: As the action begins, we hear a piano playing the blues, and the young mother Clara sings to her baby. Her song is the first of the opera's many hit tunes, the lullaby, "Summertime." Men ...

THE BASICS: With book adapted by Pulitzer prize winning Suzan-Lori Parks and musical score adapted by Diedre L. Murray, this more “Broadway-friendly” version of the great American opera Porgy and Bess ...

Is there anything Audra McDonald cannot do? The four-time Tony winner is the heart and soul of the much-anticipated (and much-critiqued) revival of The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, and she is ...