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Actor, William Warfield, was born on Jan 22, 1920 in West Helena, AR. Warfield died at the age of 82 on Aug 25, 2002 in Chicago, IL .

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William Warfield Facts
Immediately prior to his recording the Mozart Requiem with Bruno Walter, the Westminster Choir, and three other soloists, Warfield and all of the artists who made the recording participated in a live performance of the work, at Carnegie Hall.
He became almost as identified with the song "Ol' Man River" as 'Paul Robeson' had a generation earlier, and starred with Leontyne Price and Cab Calloway in a European tour of Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess". This "Porgy and Bess" played to sold-out houses all over Europe. It was performed to huge acclaim in Russia during the early days of the Cold War, and was the first American opera production to ever play Milan's La Scala Opera House. It wound up its tour on Broadway in 1953 (without Warfield, who was forced to drop out immediately prior because of earlier recording commitments). In contrast to the original 1935 production of the opera, it received rave reviews from the New York critics. It ran eight months on Broadway, one month less than the 1942 revival, but nevertheless rang up more performances - 305 - than any other production of "Porgy and Bess" to ever play in New York, at least until 2006. As it happened, it played at the Ziegfeld, the theatre at which the original 1927 production of "Show Boat" and its 1946 revival both played.
Was a professor of voice at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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