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James Robinson’s production allows the large cast of Catfish Row to interact like the old pals – almost family – that they are.

The program paired works of two living female composers with a suite of selections from Porgy and Bess, featuring star soprano Angel Blue.

The Met’s new production is directed by James Robinson, who has the characters interacting and listening to one another as if in real life – the inhabitants of Catfish Row have known each other for all of their lives and love, pray and grieve like family.

Porgy and Bess isn’t a perfect opera, but English National Opera's new production is a strong one. 

Seattle Opera's memorable Porgy and Bess excels with an exceptional cast who performed with utmost sympathy for their roles.

Glimmerglass’ Porgy and Bess proves one more time that Gershwin’s opus remains America’s most important 20th-century opera.

The marriage between performers and score here is perfect, because Gershwin’s text-setting is near-miraculous, somehow every word is clear and seems to be naturally inflected by the curvature of the musical line.

Tony Award winning production of Porgy and Bess that wowed audiences across the country has just landed at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. 

The Opéra de Montréal's production of Porgy and Bess is both an artistic success and a reaffirmation of the work's importance.

The Cleveland Orchestra’s Sunday evening concert at the Blossom Music Center seemed like a mishmash on the printed page, but it turned out to be a perfect summer evening: an all-American program with great tunes (selections from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess featuring three excellent soloists and the Blossom Festival Chorus), not too intellectually challenging (a fanfare by John Williams and excerpts

A show of “all our favourite people”. Violinist Matthew Trusler's description of the charity concert organised by himself and his wife Maya Koch refers to his and Koch’s favourite people; however he could very well have meant his audience’s or even the concert-going public.

Eric Owens singt Porgy mit Leib und Seele und ist mit seiner charismatischen Ausstrahlung der unbestrittene Held dieser Oper.

Toujours soucieux de proposer à un public varié une musique à la croisée des genres, l’Orchestre Pasdeloup a donné à la Philharmonie de Paris un programme d'une cohérence, d’une rigueur et d’une générosité rares.

La Ópera de Ciudad de Cabo trae a Madrid una versión sin demasiadas sutilezas pero rebosante de movimiento, energía y pasión.  

La célèbre mais parfois controversée œuvre de Georges Gershwin, composée en 1935, s’arrêtait pour une semaine de représentation à Odyssud avec l’orchestre, les solistes et le chœur du New York Harlem Theater.