Leontyne Price

" Donal Henahan wrote that the "57-year-old soprano took an act or two to warm to her work but what Leontyne Price delivered in the Nile Scene turned out to be well worth the wait. In 2002 RCA discovered a tape of her 1965 Carnegie Hall recital debut and released it in its "Rediscovered" series. The tour visited Chicago Pittsburgh and Washington D.

One critic characterized Price's voice as "vibrant" "soaring" and "a Price beyond pearls" as well as "genuinely buttery carefully produced but firmly under control" with phrases that "took on a seductive sinuousness. Born and raised in the Deep South Leontyne Price rose to international acclaim in the 1950s and 1960s and was one of the first African Americans to become a leading artist at the Metropolitan Opera.