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 ...

The Pablo Larraín feature stars Jolie as late Greek-American soprano singer, Maria Callas. Da’Vine Joy Randolph has already brought her vocal chops to “Rustin,” “High Fidelity,” and the upcoming ...

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, ...

Price, now 93, was the first African American soprano to have a major career at the Metropolitan Opera. Critics and fans agreed that she had one... CD Set Of Leontyne Price's Live Performances At The ...

Soprano Leontyne Price; composer Carlisle Floyd; the general director of the Santa Fe Opera and co-founder of Opera Theater of Saint Louis, Richard Gaddes, and the music director of the Metropolitan ...

Growing up, Cory McGee learned valuable lessons from three opera singers of color, all of whom inspired him to pursue his goal. One was soprano Leontyne Price, who was the first Black opera singer to ...

COLUMBIA, Md. — Soprano Leontyne Price, who retired from singing 20 years ago, assumed that the triumphs of her illustrious career were behind her. Not so. At 90, Price has become an unlikely movie ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...