Leontyne Price

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Leontyne Price Wiki Biography

Born as Mary Violet Leontyne Price on the 10th February 1927 in Laurel, Mississippi USA, she is a Grammy Award and Primetime Emmy Award-winning soprano, best known as one of the first African Americans to be the leading artist in the Metropolitan Opera. The National Endowment for the Arts awarded Price with Opera Honors in 2008, and she has 19 Grammy Awards as well.

Have you ever wondered how rich Leontyne Price is, as of mid- 2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Price’s net worth is as high as $2 million, an amount earned through her successful career as a soprano, which started in the early ‘50s and ended in 1997.

Leontyne Price was the daughter of James Price, a lumber mill worker, and Katie, a midwife who also sang in the church choir. Early in her life Leontyne started learning piano, and later sang in the St. Paul’s Methodist Church choir. Price then studied music at the Wilberforce College in Wilberforce, Ohio, before later moving to the Juilliard School in New York City.

In 1951, Price secured her first leading role in Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos”, and then starred in Verdi’s “Falstaff” and George Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” both in 1952. Two years later, Leontyne had her recital debut at New York’s Town Hall, while in 1955, she performed Puccini’s “Tosca”, the role that was remembered as she became the first African American to sing in televised opera as a lead. Price continued to appear on NBC Opera broadcasts, as Pamina in 1956, Madame Lidoine in Francis Poulenc’s “Dialogues of the Carmelites” in 1957, and as Donna Anna in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” in 1960. In May 1960, Leontyne played Aida at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy’s greatest opera house, the first African-American to do so.

In the early ‘60s, while she performed at the Metropolitan, Price earned $2,750 per performance, which was on a par with such famous artists as Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland, and Renata Tebaldi – only Birgit Nilsson made $3,000 per performance at the time. In the coming years, Leontyne had numerous important roles such as Elvira in Verdi’s “Ernani”, Pamina in Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”, Tatyana in Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin”, Leonora in “La forza del destino”, Fiordiligi in Mozart’s “Così fan tutte”, Amelia in “Un ballo in maschera”, and Cleopatra in Barber’s “Antony and Cleopatra”, quite a CV for any opera singer, the roles helping Price to increase her net worth significantly.

The climax of her career came in 1966 when she sang in Samuel Barber’s “Antony and Cleopatra”, as the part of Cleopatra was written especially for her. Later in the ‘60s, Leontyne put opera work aside as she was involved in recitals and concerts, so she decided to go back to Europe and perform in Hamburg, London, Paris, Vienna and Salzburg. In January 1973, price sang a few songs including “Precious Lord”, “Onward, Christian Soldiers”, and “Take My Hand” at the state funeral of former US President Lyndon B. Johnson, which was quite interesting because she also sang at his inauguration back in 1965. After a short break, she returned to the Metropolitan and starred in “Madam Butterfly”, while in 1977, Price had her last new role in Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos” in San Francisco. For the next twenty years, Leontyne continued to perform recitals and concerts, her last recital occurring at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in November 1997, after which she decided to retire. She came out of the retirement in October 2001 to sing “This Little Light of Mine” and “God Bless America” in a memorial concert at Carnegie Hall, to honor the victims of the September 11 attacks.

Leontyne Price appeared in numerous television shows throughout her career, including “The Ed Sullivan Show” (1961-1965), “The Bell Telephone Hour” (1963-1967), and “New York, New York” (1969-1985).

Regarding her personal life, Leontyne Price was married to William Warfield from 1952 to 1972, otherwise she has remained single, officially..

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Leontyne Price Quick Info

Full Name Leontyne Price
Net Worth $2 Million
Date Of Birth February 10, 1927
Place Of Birth Laurel, Mississippi, United States
Profession Singer, Actor, Soprano
Education Central State University, Wilberforce University, Juilliard School
Nationality American
Spouse William Warfield (m. 1952–1972)
Parents Katie Price, James Price
Nicknames Mary Violet Leontyne Price , Price, Leontyne , Mary Leontyne Price
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/LeontynePrice
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0697005/
Allmusic http://www.allmusic.com/artist/leontyne-price-mn0000591857
Awards Kennedy Center Honors, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album, Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance – Variety Or Music Program, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Classical Music or Dance Programming
Albums Christmas Recitals, Verdi: Heroines, La forza del destino, Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte, Un ballo in maschera, Il trovatore, Così fan tutte, Carmen, Aida, Puccini Heroines Leontyne Price Rediscovered, Verdi: Aïda – Highlights, Prima Donna, Volume 2 Puccini: Tosca (Metropolitan Opera), Leontyne Price Sings Verdi Arias, Artists Of The Century: Leontyne Price, El Amor Brujo / Les Nuits D’Été, Leontyne Price – Right as the Rain, Leontyne Price – Mozart, Leontyne Price – Richard Strauss, Classical Collection, Aida (feat. Orchestra e Coro del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma)
Nominations Grammy Award for Best New Artist, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Classical Program – Performing Arts, Deep River, A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, I Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray
Movies Aida’s Brothers & Sisters: Black Voices in Opera and Concert, Messa Da Requiem (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra), The Art of Singing: Golden Voices of the Century, Leontyne Price: The Art of Verdi: Aida: Act III, Voice of Firestone: The Great Sopranos
TV Shows Live from Lincoln Center, In Performance At The White House

Leontyne Price Quotes

  • On growth: You should always know when you’re shifting gears in life. You should leave your era-it should never leave you.
  • On success: Accomplishments have no color.
  • Once you get on stage, everything is right. I feel the most beautiful, complete, fulfilled. I think that’s why, in the case of noncompromising career women, parts of our personal lives don’t work out. One person can’t give you the feeling that thousands of people give you.

Leontyne Price Important Facts

  • She was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1985 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.
  • A member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
  • Made her Metropolitan Opera debut on January 27, 1961.
  • Her 1955 NBC-TV performance as Tosca was not carried by some television stations in the then racially segregated South.
  • One of the most famous and greatest American sopranos of the twentieth century, she was also the first major black singer to have a long-running star career at the Metropolitan Opera.

Leontyne Price Filmography

Title Year Status Character Role
The Metropolitan Opera Presents 1984-1985 TV Series Aida / Donna Leonora Actress
NBC Television Opera Theatre 1955-1960 TV Series Donna Anna
Madame Lidoine
Pamina
Actress
Combien tu m’aimes? 2005 performer: “Gianni Schicchi: O Moi Babbino Caro excerpt” , “Un Ballo in Maschera: Zitti! L’Incanto Non Dessi Turbare excerpts” Composed by nm0006333 & nm0813928 Soundtrack
Romeo + Juliet 1996 performer: “Liebestod” Soundtrack
Edge of Sanity 1989 performer: “Il Trovatore” Soundtrack
Aria 1987 performer: “Un Ballo in Maschera extracts”, “La Virgine degli Angeli”, “Liebestod”, “Depuis le jour” Soundtrack
Great Performances 2000 TV Series special thanks – 1 episode Thanks
Legends Ball 2006 TV Movie documentary Herself Self
Carnegie Hall at 100: A Place of Dreams 1991 Video documentary Herself Self
The 31st Annual Grammy Awards 1989 TV Special Herself Self
New York, New York 1969-1985 TV Series Herself Self
In Performance at the White House 1983 TV Series documentary Herself Self
The Metropolitan Opera: Centennial Gala 1983 TV Special Herself Self
Christmas at Kennedy Center with Leontyne Price 1982 TV Movie Herself Self
Price/Horne Met Gala Concert 1982 TV Special Soprano Self
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts 1981 TV Special documentary Herself Self
Great Performances 1981 TV Series Herself Self
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts 1980 TV Special Herself – Honoree Self
Live from Studio 8H: A Tribute to Toscanini 1980 TV Special documentary Soloist Self
Leontyne Price and the Spirituals 1979 Video Herself (singer) Self
The Pearl Bailey Show 1971 TV Series Herself Self
Messa da Requiem von Giuseppe Verdi 1967 TV Special documentary Sopran Self
The Bell Telephone Hour 1963-1967 TV Series Herself – Opera Soprano Self
What’s My Line? 1966 TV Series Herself – Mystery Guest Self
Die alte und die neue Met 1966 TV Movie Herself Self
The Ed Sullivan Show 1961-1965 TV Series Herself – Opera Singer / Singer Self
Festival of Arts 1962 TV Series Herself Self
Preview: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony 1958 TV Movie Herself (soprano) Self
Leontyne Price Recital 1957 TV Movie Herself – Singer Self
Pappano’s Classical Voices 2015 TV Series documentary Herself Archive Footage
Great Performances 1998 TV Series Herself / Bess Archive Footage
Great Moments in Opera 1997 TV Movie Herself Archive Footage
The Ed Sullivan Show 1970 TV Series Herself – Singer Archive Footage

Leontyne Price Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie Category
1984 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Individual Achievement – Classical Music/Dance Programming In Performance at the White House (1978) Won
1983 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program Live from Lincoln Center (1976) Won
1984 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Individual Achievement – Classical Music/Dance Programming In Performance at the White House (1978) Nominated
1983 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program Live from Lincoln Center (1976) Nominated