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

“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 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 ...

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, ...

Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully. StarringSidney Poitier Dorothy Dandridge Sammy Davis Jr.