Latest Release
- 26 NOV 2023
- 13 Songs
- Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos · 1979
- The Inaugural Season Extraordinary Met Performances from 1966-67 (Live) · 2002
- La Mejor Música Clásica para Principiantes: 51 de las Más Grandes Piezas de Todos los Tiempos · 2012
- Leontyne Price: Personal Choice (2024 Remastered Edition) · 1960
- Porgy & Bess - Live Recording Sunday 21st September 1952, Titiania Palast Berlin · 2008
- Alleluja · 2023
- Alleluja · 2023
- Alleluja · 2023
- Alleluja · 2023
- Alleluja · 2023
- 2015
Artist Playlists
- A boundary-breaking soprano with a voice that embraced drama and lyricism.
Live Albums
- 2013
Appears On
- Vienna Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
About Leontyne Price
African American Soprano. Won a scholarship to Juilliard in 1949. In 1952 Ms. Price was chosen by Virgil Thomson for a Broadway revival of his Four Saints in Three Acts, and then starred as Bess in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess on a world tour. A concert career including first performances of works by Barber and Sauguet was interrupted by a television performance of Tosca. This success along with other operatic appearances set the course of her career. She achieved fame as one of the world's foremost sopranos, mainly through her roles in Verdi's operas. Her voice is a true lirico-spinto, a voice that can sound powerful and incisive at dramatic climaxes. A subtle interpreter of many of the great women's operatic roles. ~ Lynn Vought
- HOMETOWN
- Laurel, MS, United States
- BORN
- 10 de febrero de 1927
- GENRE
- Classical