Price, Leontyne
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Name (Hebrew)
פרייס, לאונטין
Name (Latin)
Price, Leontyne
Other forms of name
Price, Mary Violet Leontyne
Date of birth
1927-02-10
Place of birth
Laurel (Miss.)
Associated country
United States
Occupation
Sopranos (Singers)
Singers
Sopranos(Singers)
Gender
female
Fuller form of name
Mary Violet Leontyne
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- African American National Biography, accessed March 9, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Price, Leontyne; Mary Violet Leontine Price; opera singer; born 10 February 1927 in Laurel, Mississippi, United States; BA in voice from Wilberforce College, Ohio (1948); studied at Juilliard School of Music, New York City (1948-1952); casted in the revival of all-black American classic, Four Saints in Three Acts, staged in New York and Paris (1952); became the first black prima donna to appear in a major production of opera on television, Puccini's Tosca on NBC (1955); performed at San Francisco Opera (1957), Vienna State Opera (1958), La Scala (1960), and Metropolitan Opera (1961-1985); awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964), NAACP's Spingarn Medal (1965), and at least eighteen Grammy Awards; made history performing in the first nationally televised concert series from the White House (1978))
- Barber, S. Hermit songs [SR] 1955:label (Leontyne Price, soprano)
- New Grove dict. of opera(Price, (Mary Violet) Leontyne; b. Feb. 10, 1927, Laurel, MS; American soprano)