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American soprano Leontyne Price (b. 1927) is beloved for her extraordinary voice and radiant charm. Born in Laurel, Mississippi, Price is an internationally renowned opera performer, concert singer, and Grammy Award-winning recording artist. Price debuted on the stage of a major opera house in September 1957 during a stunning performance as Madame Lidoine in the San Francisco Opera production of French composer Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc's (1899โ1963) ๐๐ช๐ข๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฎรฉ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ด In October, Price sang Italian composer Giuseppe Verdiโs (1813โ1901) ๐๐ช๐ฅ๐ข for the first time in San Francisco, a role that she practiced in the late 1940s as a student at The Julliard School in New York. ๐๐ช๐ฅ๐ข became one of Priceโs famed operas in San Francisco and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. When she sang at Teatro alla Scala, the legendary opera house in Milan, Italy, for the first time in 1960, Price made her debut with ๐๐ช๐ฅ๐ข. She rescued a San Francisco Opera production of ๐๐ช๐ฅ๐ข on November 18, 1981, as a last-minute stand-in, and then returned in 1984 for four nights of ๐๐ช๐ฅ๐ขโthe final performances of her famous role in San Francisco. Learn more about San Francisco Operaโs history in our exhibition โSan Francisco Opera: A Centennial Celebrationโ on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://bit.ly/SFOperaCentennial
This image was posted on February 01, 2023.