The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess: “I got plenty o’ nuttin’” (Alfred Walker)

Alfred Walker sings an excerpt from Porgy’s Act II aria in an early stage rehearsal. Production: James Robinson. Conductor: Kwamé Ryan. 2025–26 season. Videography by Neville Braithwaite. A supremely American masterpiece and arguably the most ambitious creation of one of the nation’s brightest artistic talents, Porgy and Bess features a rich collection of individual arias, many of which have become classics of the Great American Songbook. But the opera also maintains a level of musical unity and a descriptive language that rank it among the repertory’s great works. Buy tickets at the box office, on the Met Opera app, or at metopera.org.