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Leontyne Price
Leontyne Price is an American singer who was the first African-American soprano to receive international acclaim. From 1961 she began a long association with the Metropolitan Opera, becoming the first Black singer to maintain a sustained relationship with the company. She regularly appeared at the world's major opera houses, including the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and La Scala. She was particularly renowned for her performances of the title role in Giuseppe Verdi's Aida. Born in Laurel, Mississippi, Price studied music at the College of Education and Industrial Arts in Wilberforce, Ohio which at the beginning of her education was a department inside Wilberforce University. By the time she graduated in June 1948 with a degree in music education, the department had split from Wilberforce and become its own separate institution, the State College of Education and Industrial Arts at Wilberforce. She pursued further studies at the Juilliard School from 1948 until 1952, where she was trained as a soprano by Florence Kimball. From Wikipedia (

Songs

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La Rondine: Act I: Chi il bel sogno di Doretta
Leontyne Price
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La Forza del Destino: Act IV: Pace, pace mio Dio
Leontyne Price
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Tristan und Isolde: Act III: Mild und leise (Liebestod)
Leontyne Price
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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess, Act I: Summertime
Leontyne Price
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Puccini: Tosca, Act II: Vissi d'arte
Leontyne Price

Albums

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Verdi: Il trovatore

2026
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J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232

2020
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Verdi: Il trovatore

2015
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Verdi: Ernani - Shippers (Restored 2024) (feat. Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma)

2024
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Great Verdi Voices

2016
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The Voice of Leontyne Price

2014
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Puccini: Tosca by Leontyne Price

2022
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Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626

2015
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Verdi · Il trovatore

2022
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, Nozze di Figaro & Cosi fan tutte

2015

Videos

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Rossini's Duet for Two Cats (Drag Queen Performance to Te Kanawa/Burrows)

Dusty Pörn • 9.3K views
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The Romanovs. Somewhere

blessOTMA • 1.9K views
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Eugene Onegin: Letter Scene -- Anna Netrebko

Metropolitan Opera • 702K views
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Habanera de "Carmen": "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle". Elina Garanča. Subtitles: FRA – ENG – ESP.

old_45 • 12K views
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Leontyne Price "Pace, pace mio Dio" La forza del destino

Onegin65 • 206K views
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George Gershwin - Summertime (Music Video)

InFocus Film School • 3.2K views
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Miau Miau Miau (Duetto buffo di due gatti G. A. Rossini)

Projeto Orquestra em Ação • 46K views
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Leontyne Price Opera Farewell "O patria mia" Aida

Onegin65 • 38K views
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Cynthia Erivo performs "Somewhere" from West Side Story with the National Symphony Orchestra

The Kennedy Center • 854K views
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Leontyne price sings Ave Maria [Bach Gounod]

Phamox Music • 152K views

Featured on

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Presenting Mozart

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Essential Classical

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Opera for the Ages

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Presenting Schubert

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Essential Opera

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