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Porgy and Bess in Wien
Porgy and Bess in Wien

Porgy and Bess in Wien

1953 29m 1 views

Overview

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

William Warfield

Leontyne Price

Leontyne Price

Cab Calloway

Cab Calloway

John McCurry

John McCurry

UL

Urylee Leonardos

GR

George Royston Jr.

HA

Howard A. Roberts

HC

Helen Colbert

LE

Llewellyn E. Thompson

JJ

Joseph James

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