Porgy and Bess in Wien (1953)
29 min
Documentary
Music
Featuring the opera star Leontyne Price, the concert baritone William Warfield, and the irrepressible jazz bandleader Cab Calloway, this virtually unknown short film documents the first stop on what would become a four-year US State Department–sponsored tour of the Everyman Opera Company's production of the Gershwin-Heyward opera Porgy and Bess.
Cast
William Warfield
Leontyne Price
Cab Calloway
John McCurry
Urylee Leonardos
George Royston Jr.
Howard A. Roberts
Helen Colbert
Llewellyn E. Thompson
Joseph James
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