Porgy and Bess in Wien

(1953)

Genres: Documentary, Music

Year: 1953

Runtime: 29 мин

Country: United States of America

Cast: William Warfield, Leontyne Price, Cab Calloway, John McCurry, Urylee Leonardos, George Royston Jr., Howard A. Roberts, Helen Colbert, Llewellyn E. Thompson, Joseph James

Plot

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.