Porgy and Bess, embracing, 2013
Kara Walker
Lithograph, edition 23 of 171
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of the collection of Arthur Lewis and Hau Nguyen
M.2020.244.1.4
© Kara Walker, digital image courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Watch: Porgy and Bess: “Summertime” – 2 minutes, 21 seconds
Porgy and Bess: “Summertime”
George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, which made its New York debut in 1935, is known as the “first great American opera.”
Watch and listen as Golda Schultz sings the character Clara’s Act I aria during the final dress rehearsal for the Metropolitan Opera’s 2019 production of Porgy and Bess.