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Leontyne Price photographed by Carl Van Vechten on May 19, 1953.

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Leontyne Price in Porgy and Bess, Photo by Carl Van Vechten, 1953

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Today In History

Leontyne Price, world-renowned opera singer, and the first African American singer to achieve an international reputation in opera—made her formal debut at the Metropolitan Opera House on this date January 27, 1961.

Both of Price’s grandfathers had been Methodist ministers in Black churches in Mississippi, and she sang in her church choir as a girl. Only when she graduated from the College of Education and Industrial Arts (now Central State College) in Wilberforce, Ohio, in 1948 did she decide to seek a career as a singer.

She studied for four years at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City, where she worked under the former concert singer Florence Page Kimball, who remained her coach in later years. Her debut took place in April 1952 in a Broadway revival of Four Saints in Three Acts by Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein.

Leontyne Price performance in that production, which subsequently traveled to Paris, prompted Ira Gershwin to choose her to sing the role of Bess in his revival of Porgy and Bess, which played in New York City from 1952 to 1954 and then toured the United States and Europe. The year 1955 saw her triumphant performance of the title role in the National Broadcasting Company’s television production of Tosca, and she sang leading roles in other operas on television in the next few years.

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Leontyne Price, New York. Irving Penn, 1961.

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Leontyne Price sings Richard Strauss LP (1974)

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Happy 97th birthday to the legendary Leontyne Price!

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Black History Month: Some of the greatest African-American opera divas of the 20th century: Marian Anderson, Leontyne Price, Shirley Verrett, Reri Grist, Grace Bumbry, Martina Arroyo, Jessye Norman, Kathleen Battle, Leona Mitchell and Maria Ewing.

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Leontyne Price as Cleopatra in Barber's ‘Antony and Cleopatra (1966)’ — The Met Archives/Metropolitan Opera

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Portrait of soprano Leontyne Price in Verdi's opera, "Aida." Stamped on back: "Copyright photograph by Dominic. Dominic, 31, Chelsea Square, S.W.3., tel. Flaxman 6118." Label on back: "As Aida in her English debut role at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, July, 1958." Handwritten on back: "Leontyne Price."

E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

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Leontyne Price and Herbert von Karajan

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Leontyne Price photographed by Carl Van Vechten as Bess in the Broadway musical "Porgy and Bess" on May 19, 1953.

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Leontyne Price, Photo by Irving Penn, 1961

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Today In History

Leontyne Price, world-renowned opera singer, made her historic last performance at the Metropolitan Opera as “Aida” on this date January 3, 1985.

Leontyne was one of the first African Americans to achieve international acclaim on the opera stage.

From 1961 she began a long association with the Metropolitan Opera, where she was the first African American to be a leading performer. She regularly appeared at the world’s major opera houses, the Royal Opera House, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and La Scala, the last at which she was also the first African American to sing a leading role.

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Cab Calloway and Leontyne Price performing in the 1953 revival of “Porgy and Bess”.

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