Throughout the 2025-26 season, HGO will be celebrating its beloved artistic and music director, Patrick Summers, who in May 2026 will transition to a new role: music director emeritus and holder ...

The 2025-26 Houston Grand Opera season promises to be a significant one as the company will stage its first-ever Handel's "Messiah," Gershwins' "Porgy and Bess," the pioneering work that HGO made ...

Not only that, but “Porgy and Bess” will make its Lyric Opera premiere ... jazz and Broadway music. What: Based on John Steinbeck’s novella, this 1970 opera from composer and librettist ...

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 ...

In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess - a woman with ... her shelter is the crippled Porgy. Their relationship is ...

An acclaimed soprano will bring the Songs of the South to life during a concert this Saturday at Lansdowne estate. The ...

The actor performed songs including "It Ain't Necessarily So" from Porgy and Bess and "America" from West ... There, the duo chatted about their musical talents while promoting their upcoming ...

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

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