Featuring beloved songs like “Summertime,” Porgy and Bess blends operatic tradition with jazz and blues influences. When Lyric Opera of Kansas City announced it would stage Porgy and Bess for the ...

Featuring beloved songs like “Summertime,” Porgy and Bess blends operatic tradition with jazz and blues influences. When Lyric Opera of Kansas City announced it would stage Porgy and Bess for the ...

Ninety years ago this autumn, George Gershwin unveiled “Porgy and Bess” on Broadway—and confusion reigned. Was it an opera or a musical? A bold experiment or a misfire? Critics were split. Yet from ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Summertime" "A Woman Is a Sometime Thing" "My Man's Gone Now" "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'" "Bess, You Is My Woman" "It Ain't Necessarily So" "I Loves You, Porgy" In the 1920s, George Gershwin had an ...

"Summertime," composed by George Gershwin for Porgy and Bess, has become one of the most recorded songs in history, with over 25,000 versions. This video explores its origins, from African-American ...

Awash in the hard light of a summer afternoon in South Carolina, the opening scene of Washington National Opera’s “Porgy and Bess” bears the muted sepia glow of an old photograph — one that springs to ...

There’s a reason why the George Gershwin song ‘Summertime’ is one of the most beloved pieces of popular music—and one of the most covered. Only Beatles standards ‘Yesterday’ and ‘Michelle’ can compare ...

It was one of those mythic New York nights: the Broadway premiere of the Gershwins’ “Porgy and Bess” in 1935. The starry opening drew Hollywood royalty, including Katharine Hepburn and Joan Crawford.

As the weather heats up, Guardian writers pick their defining summer tracks, from Phoenix and Donna Summer to Stevie Wonder The unforgiving yellow sun, a trip to the beach, that sweet, cold respite of ...