“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 ...

WPI professor Lucy Caplan explores how Black artists helped transform opera in new book "Dreaming in Ensemble." ...

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 ...

The concert, a one-time-only event, offers tickets ranging from R50 to R150, available through Webtickets. Following the performance, attendees will be invited to a special meet-the-cast reception, ...

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.

The story of two Jewish cousins in 1939 New York City who create an anti-fascist comic book hero, the Escapist, comes as a ...