2012 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Actor in a Musical Norm Lewis 2012 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Actress in a Musical Audra McDonald 2012 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Director Francesca Zambello's production of 'Porgy and Bess' (Karli Cadel/Houston Grand Opera) " It's an extraordinarily rich ...

A jazz interpretation of the American opera “Porgy and Bess” debuts this weekend at the New Vic Theater in Santa Barbara, starring actors Elijah Rock and Karole Foreman. Composed by George Gershwin, ...

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 ...

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, ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

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 ...

NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues at 1 p.m. with a live broadcast of the Gershwins’ “Porgy and Bess.” Bass-baritone Alfred Walker and ...

George Gershwin's 1935 folk opera, Porgy and Bess, a quintessentially American masterpiece, has had its share of jazz interpretations. Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald visited the work in 1957 on ...