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

What: George Gershwin's 'Porgy and Bess,' story by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, lyrics by the Heywards and Ira Gershwin, produced by Opera Colorado Starring: Priscilla Baskerville, Arthur Woodley, ...

The great opera singer Sir Willard White recalls his experiences on the first televised production of George Gershwin’s classic opera Porgy and Bess. Show more The great opera singer Sir Willard ...

George Gershwin's classic opera, Porgy and Bess, has finally come to Boston (it opens today at the Astor), heralding, it claims, "a new era in motion pictures." This may be something of an ...

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

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 ...