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If there is one opera lost or won by its chorus and characters, it’s George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. In this perfect storm of a story, it’s all about the tight-knit fishing community that cradles, ...

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Exclusive: Behind the scenes with Kwamé Ryan for his Met Opera debut, conducting “Porgy and Bess.” It was a journey years in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Director Francesca Zambello's production of 'Porgy and Bess' (Karli Cadel/Houston Grand Opera) " It's an extraordinarily rich ...

“Porgy and Bess,” a classic work of the American theater whose action is set in Charleston, will be presented by Spoleto Festival USA this spring at the newly renovated Gaillard Center. The production ...

In the third or fourth phase of his illustrious career, Miles Davis recorded an album called Porgy and Bess. The title didn’t indicate that he was playing the music that George Gershwin had created ...

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 ...

‘Everyone seems to have a ‘Porgy and Bess’ story,” said Harlan Greene, the head of special collections at the College of Charleston’s Addlestone Library. Greene has intimate knowledge of the original ...

Opera is an oft-maligned and misunderstood art form. From the outside, it appears to be a relic of Gilded Age opulence and irrelevant. And yet the high drama and emotion, always a little extra, is ...

Michael Sumuel was a high school freshman competing in the all-state auditions when his voice broke. “I was auditioning as a Tenor II. There was some descending line and I remember it started on a ...