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Price, Leontyne |
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Price, Mary Violet Leontyne |
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Price, Leontyne, 1927- |
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LC/NAF, consulta feta el 25 de març, 2019 (punt d'accés: Price, Leontyne ; altra informació: Price, (Mary Violet) Leontyne; b. Feb. 10, 1927, Laurel, MS; American soprano; Mary Violet Leontine Price; opera singer; born 10 February 1927 in Laurel, Mississippi, United States; BA in voice from Wilberforce College, Ohio (1948); studied at Juilliard School of Music, New York City (1948-1952); casted in the revival of all-black American classic, Four Saints in Three Acts, staged in New York and Paris (1952); became the first black prima donna to appear in a major production of opera on television, Puccini’s Tosca on NBC (1955); performed at San Francisco Opera (1957), Vienna State Opera (1958), La Scala (1960), and Metropolitan Opera (1961-1985); awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964), NAACP’s Spingarn Medal (1965), and at least eighteen Grammy Awards; made history performing in the first nationally televised concert series from the White House (1978)) |
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