Porgy and Bess

George Gershwin’s jazz-fueled opera tells the story of steadfast love between two people faced with boundaries: the disabled beggar Porgy and the past-anguished Bess. Described as a defining work of American music theater, the opera performance, with Metropolitan Opera’s bass-baritone Kevin Short, infuses grit with adversity through jazz and blues at both the Norris Community Center off Cambier Park and the Charlotte Performing Arts Center.