Legendary American soprano Leontyne Price turns 99 years old today. Her story began in Mississippi, and includes 13 Grammy ...

Opera Theatre in St. Paul is celebrating Black History Month with a special concert celebrating Leontyne Price. Price was the first Black Prima Donna of the New York Metropolitan Opera and later this ...

After winning a vocal competition in 1975, she starred in “Treemonisha,” which ended up on Broadway. She also sang for a senator. By Neil Genzlinger Listen to the soaring voices of Maria Callas, ...

In her travels about Europe, figures Soprano Leontyne Price, she must have walked several dozen times through Milan’s Piazza della Scala, past the ornate brown-brick theater with the triple-arched ...

To celebrate Gramophone's 90th anniversary this month we are reprinting a series of classic interviews from the Gramophone archive. We continue with Leontyne Price, who spoke to Alan Blyth for ...

The Powerhouse pianist Awadagin Pratt told us about two transporting performances. Awadagin Pratt: This is an interesting question because musicians primarily tend to analyze when listening, which ...

The soprano was the daughter of a Negro carpenter from Laurel, Miss. The tenor was the son of a naval engineer from Ancona, Italy. Together on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera last week, Leontyne ...

Sherrill Milnes calls it "an avalanche of sound." Jessye Norman says it's "a cloud filled with silver." Singers and critics talk about the amazing... Long live Leontyne Price! As it turns out, the ...

On this day in 1927, Leontyne Price was born in Mississippi. Price made his first appearance on Broadway in April of 1952. Her successful career included leading opera houses around the world and 18 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. With a voice that routinely brought ...

Awadagin Pratt: This is an interesting question because musicians primarily tend to analyze when listening, which raises the bar for getting to what are the more normal primal responses. The most ...