Richard Rodgers in 1954. In 1959 he was the tenor soloist in Handel's Messiah under conductor Eugene Ormandy with the Philadelphia Orchestra, soprano Eileen Farrell, contralto Martha Lipton, baritone William Warfield, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at Carnegie Hall. His last public performance was with the Cincinnati Symphony under conductor James Levine in 1973. In the early 1970s Cunningham was a member of the voice faculty at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. In 1974 he moved to San Diego where he taught singing out of a private studio until his death ten years later of a heart attack. References External links 1916 births 1984 deaths American male musical theatre actors American operatic tenors College of Wooster alumni Juilliard School alumni University of Utah faculty United States Army Air Forces officers 20th-century American male actors 20th-century American male opera singers United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II American expatriates in the Philippines