Astrology Birth Chart of Leontyne Price (Opera Singer) 2024

Mary Violet Leontyne Price is an American soprano, the first African-American soprano to receive international acclaim. From 1961, she began a long-term attachment to the Metropolitan Opera House, where she was the first African American to become an outstanding performer. She performed regularly at the world's greatest opera houses, the Royal Opera House, the San Francisco Opera, the Chicago Lyric Opera and La Scala, the theater she later became the first African-American. Singing the foreground role. She is especially famous for her lead role in Verdi's Aida. Born in Laurel, Mississippi, Price attended Central State University and later Juilliard, where she debuted the opera as Ford Mistress in Verdi's Falstaff. After hearing the performance, Virgil Thomson engaged her in Four Saints in Three Acts and she went on tour, with her husband William Warfield, in the successful revival of Gerswhin's Porgy and Bess.

Grammy Award-winning opera singer who received the Kennedy Center Honor in 1980 and the National Medal of Arts in 1985.

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