Since the 1935 world premiere production of the classic folk opera, Porgy and Bess, much of the score of George Gershwin's first opera has become musical canon. Leaping off of the operatic stage ...

It was not until the revival, after composer George Gershwin’s death, that Porgy and Bess came into its own. The melodrama of a 1905 Charleston waterfront slum, which might otherwise have been ...

uncut version of Porgy and Bess. Her name was Kay Swift and, 40 years previously, she had fought with its composer George Gershwin over the cuts producers asked him to make to the piece ahead of ...

and his masterpieces include such well-known compositions as the folk opera "Porgy and Bess," "Rhapsody in Blue" and "An American in Paris." Though Gershwin died at the early age of 37 ...

It was 5° above zero when the 85 members of the Porgy and Bess company got to ... a trip to the Soviet Union for the 20-year-old George Gershwin-DuBose Heyward folk opera about poor Negroes ...

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 ...

George Gershwin has written 48 shows including Half-Past Eight (Composer), La, La, Lucille (Composer), La-La-Lucille! (Composer), Morris Gest's "Midnight Whirl" (Composer), George White's Scandals ...