DocumentaryMusic

Porgy and Bess in Wien

Name: Porgy and Bess in Wien
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 1953-01-01
Duration: 29 min
Cast: William Warfield, Leontyne Price, Cab Calloway, John McCurry, Urylee Leonardos

January 1, 1953

29m

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.