The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD broadcast of George and Ira Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center has been rescheduled to Saturday, Feb. 22, at 11 a.m. A major power outage in Whitefish thwarted the original live broadcast on Feb. 1. Tickets will be available at the door for $20 adults/$5 students/$10 college students. Tickets previously purchased by audience members for the Feb. 1 screening will be honored at the Feb. 22 broadcast.

Considered an American “folk opera” with elements of jazz, blues and musical theater, “Porgy and Bess” features one familiar song after another. Audiences will recognize “Summertime,” “My Man’s Gone Now,” “Bess, You is My Woman Now” “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” “There’s a Boat That’s Leavin’ Soon for New York” — and others. A new production by director James Robinson, it is sung in English with English subtitles. Total run time is 3 hours 30 minutes, which includes one intermission.

“Porgy and Bess” depicts life in the 1920s on “Catfish Row,” a black seaside slum near Charleston, South Carolina. Set in a close-knit community of hard-working and faith-imbued inhabitants, “Porgy and Bess” is a love story that brews amid the challenges of poverty, sex, violence and drug use. Porgy (bass-baritone Eric Owens) is a disabled street beggar who attempts to rescue the glamorous Bess (soprano Angel Blue) from her violent and possessive lover Crown and from Sportin’ Live, her drug dealer.

Like the original “Porgy and Bess,” this new Met production features a huge (60-plus), mostly all-black cast (a few characters in the story are white) and dazzling dance choreography. Met audiences have been unusually engaged with the action onstage, and reviewers have praised the performances. New York Classical Review stated, ““Porgy and Bess” had more dynamic energy, more direct communication, and possibly more fine singing than seen at the Met in the last several seasons.”