The 2025-26 Houston Grand Opera season promises to be a significant one as the company will stage its first-ever Handel's ...

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

We hear the wilderness and it hears us.

For the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, the 2025-26 season finally will mark a full recovery from the pandemic. “This is the year ...

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 ...

When the play completed its run, he collaborated with DuBose Heyward and his lyricist brother, Ira Gershwin, on what would become “Porgy and Bess.” George and Ira Gershwin created a completely ...

In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess - a woman with ... her shelter is the crippled Porgy. Their relationship is ...