Leontyne Price: Cilea Adriana Lecouvreur, Ecco respiro Io son Lumile ancella
Mary Violet Leontyne Price (born February 10, 1927) is an American soprano. Born and raised in Laurel, Mississippi, she rose to international acclaim in the 1950s and 1960s, and was one of the first African Americans to become a leading artist at the Metropolitan Opera. One critic characterized Price s voice as vibrant, soaring and a Price beyond pearls, as well as genuinely buttery, carefully produced but firmly under control, with phrases that took on a seductive Time magazine ca
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