“If you’re going to stage Gershwin’s opera, this is how,” raved the Guardian when the new production premiered in London in 2018. David Robertson conducts a dynamic cast, featuring the ...

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, ...

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 ...

On July 22, 1933, thousands of people, about a third of them African American, streamed into the largest theater in Manhattan to watch, listen and applaud soprano Caterina Jarboro, the ...

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

Several events have been planned in southeastern North Carolina to celebrate Black History Month. The annual Caterina Jarboro ...