Porgy and Bess
Show Details
- Music
- George Gershwin (860)
- Lyrics
- Ira Gershwin (708), DuBose Heyward (106)
- Book
- DuBose Heyward (106)
- Additional Lyrics
- Ira Gershwin (708), DuBose Heyward (106)
- Type
- Opera
- Source
- Porgy, by DuBose Heyward
- Premiere
- October 10, 1935
Recordings
Audio Recordings
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Porgy and Bess - 1980 Concert Cast | |
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Porgy and Bess - 2009 Concert Cast | |
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Porgy and Bess - The Soul/Jazz Edition - 2013 Royal Norwegian Navy Band | |
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Porgy and Bess - 2020 The Philadelphia Orchestra |
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Songs also appear on these recordings (130)
Songs
- Bess, You Is My Woman (29)
- Catfish Row
- I Can't Puzzle This Thing Out...
- I Got Plenty o' Nuttin' (31)
- I Loves You, Porgy (33)
- I Wants To Stay Here
- If God Want To Kill Me...
- No, No, Brother, Porgy Ain't Soft On No Woman...
- Oh, Doctor Jesus (3)
- Oh, Doctor Jesus (Reprise) (2)
- Oh, Lawd, What I Goin' Do?...
- Overture (5)
- Porgy, I Hates To Go...
- Summertime (86)
- Lyrics: DuBose Heyward (106)
- The Buzzard Song (3)
- Clara, Clara, Don't You Be Downhearted... (5)
- Lyrics: DuBose Heyward (106)
- Crab Man (6)
- Lyrics: DuBose Heyward (106)
- Crap Game Fugue
- Lyrics: DuBose Heyward (106)
- Crown, I got something to tell you...
- Death of Crown
- Gone, Gone, Gone (6)
- Lyrics: DuBose Heyward (106)
- Here come de honey man... (4)
- How are you dis mornin'?...
- Lyrics: DuBose Heyward (106)
- I Ain't Got No Shame
- I Got Plenty o' Nuttin' (Reprise) (2)
- I Hates Yo' Struttin' Style
- I'm On My Way (16)
- Lyrics: DuBose Heyward (106)
- I'm Talkin' About Devil Crabs...
- It Ain't Necessarily So (38)
- Lyrics: Ira Gershwin (708)
- It Takes a Long Pull to Get There (Reprise)
- Lyrics: DuBose Heyward (106)
- It Takes a Long Pull to Get There (Rowing Song) (4)
- Lyrics: DuBose Heyward (106)
- Leavin' For The Promise' Lan' (Train Song) (2)
- Lyrics: DuBose Heyward (106)
- 'Lo, Bess. Goin' to picnic?...
- My Man's Gone Now (23)
- Lyrics: DuBose Heyward (106)
- Oh, Bess, Oh, Where's My Bess (10)
- Lyrics: Ira Gershwin (708)
- Oh, de Lawd Shake de Heaven
- Lyrics: DuBose Heyward (106)
- Oh, dere's somebody knockin' at de do'...
- Oh, I Can't Sit Down (Picnic Song) (4)
- Lyrics: Ira Gershwin (708)
- Overflow (2)
- Lyrics: DuBose Heyward (106)
- A Red Headed Woman (3)
- Lyrics: Ira Gershwin (708)
- Seems like these bones don't give me nothin' but box-cars tonight...
- Strawberry Woman (7)
- Lyrics: DuBose Heyward (106)
- Summertime (Reprise) (2)
- Lyrics: DuBose Heyward (106)
- There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York (27)
- Lyrics: Ira Gershwin (708)
- They Pass By Singing (Entrance of Porgy) (2)
- Lyrics: DuBose Heyward (106)
- Wake up an' hid it out...
- What You Want Wid Bess? (5)
- Lyrics: DuBose Heyward (106)
- Why you been out on that wharf so long, Clara?...
- A Woman Is A Sometime Thing (16)
- Lyrics: DuBose Heyward (106)
- Woman to Lady (Divorce Scene)
- Lyrics: DuBose Heyward (106)