Music
‘Porgy and Bess’ and Opera Highlights Performed by Stamford Symphony This Weekend
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Stamford Symphony will be performing Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess program which also includes selections of beloved Italian operas.
— an announcement from the Stamford Symphony
Two performances take place this weekend; On Saturday, Feb. 9 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 10 at 3 p.m. at Stamford’s Palace Theatre. In recognition of Black History Month in February, Stamford Symphony is proud to present the Concert Version of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, which depicts African American culture of the early 1900s. Featuring vocal soloists, Donita Volkwijn and John Fulton and the Greenwich Choral Society, the program will allow you to hear, live, the sounds of the blues and spirituals that became the standards of the Great American Songbook, including “Summertime,” “I Got Plenty O’Nuttin,” and “It Ain’t Necessarily So.”This concert opens with popular selections of choruses and duets from beloved Italian operas including Rossini’s Barber of Seville Overture, Puccini’s Humming Chorus from Madame Butterfly and Verdi’s Triumphal March from Aida to name a few.