University Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Kiesler, conductor.
Chamber Choir, Jerry Blackstone, musical director.
The Our Own Thing Chorale, former SMTD Professor Willis Patterson, music director.

Featuring current SMTD student Rehanna Thelwell, SMTD alumna Janai Brugger, Morris Robinson, Talise Trevigne, Norman Garrett, Chauncey Packer, Reginald Smith Jr., and Karen Slack.

Porgy and Bess is without rival as the most famous 20th-century American opera. Since its 1935 debut, this story of a disabled beggar transformed by the unexpected love of Bess has been performed worldwide and features such well-known songs as “I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’,” “My Man’s Gone Now,” “Summertime,” and “It Ain’t Necessarily So.”