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Mary Violet Leontyne Price (/ l i ˈ ɒ n t iː n, ˈ l iː ə n t iː n / lee-ON-teen, LEE-ən-teen; born February 10, 1927) is an American spinto soprano who was the first African American soprano to receive international acclaim.
Jun 10, 2024 · Leontyne Price, American lyric soprano, the first African American singer to achieve an international reputation in opera. She was one of the Metropolitan Opera’s leading regular sopranos, notably appearing in Madama Butterfly, Don Giovanni, and Aida.
Apr 2, 2014 · Soprano Leontyne Price is widely regarded as the first African American to gain international acclaim as a professional opera singer.
Metropolitan Opera audiences began an extraordinary love affair with American soprano Leontyne Price immediately upon her debut on January 27, 1961. She was by then an internationally heralded singer and an experienced, refined musician and artist.
Dec 22, 2017 · Dec. 22, 2017. COLUMBIA, Md. — The soprano Leontyne Price, who retired from singing 20 years ago, assumed that the triumphs of her illustrious career were behind her. Not so. At 90, Ms. Price has...
Nov 4, 2022 · Hear an extended interview with internationally acclaimed soprano Leontyne Price as she reflects on her life and achievements.
For those wishing to know what all the fuss was about, start with the famous “blue album,” Leontyne Price, that assembles arias from all her signature, encore-worthy roles in one place. Recorded 1959–1960 with the Rome Opera Orchestra conducted by Oliviero de Fabritiis and Arturo Basile, it presents her as Aida, Butterfly, Tosca, Leonora ...
Leontyne Price was the outstanding lyric-dramatic US soprano of her generation, with a uniquely recognisable timbre.
Price achieved one of the greatest artistic victories of her career on January 27, 1961, when she debuted at the Metropolitan Opera as Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore. This performance ignited a 42-minute ovation, one of the longest in the Met's history.
Feb 10, 2017 · Leontyne Price was among the very best Verdi sopranos of her time. It was a dark, dramatic soprano voice with a good deal of freedom in it.
