Leontyne Price

I recall Leontyne Price being there, as well as Eartha Kitt.

CNN Transcript Jan 21, 2009 2009

I recall Leontyne Price being there, as well as Eartha Kitt.

CNN Transcript Jan 24, 2009 2009

I'd want to listen to Gershwin, Satchmo, Pink Martini and Samuel Barber, and to hear Leontyne Price sing "Knoxville: Summer of 1915" with James Agee's words—"May God bless my people, my uncle, my aunt, my mother, my good father, oh, remember them kindly in their time of trouble; and in the hour of their taking away"—over and over.

What If This Year Is the Last? Scott Simon 2012

By inclination, Barber seems to have gravitated to writing for the voice, as in his second most famous work, the haunting "Knoxville: Summer of 1915," based on a prose-poem by James Agee, and a signature piece for the soprano Leontyne Price.

Thomas Larson's 'The Saddest Music Ever Written,' reviewed by Michael Dirda 2010

By inclination, Barber seems to have gravitated to writing for the voice, as in his second most famous work, the haunting "Knoxville: Summer of 1915," based on a prose-poem by James Agee, and a signature piece for the soprano Leontyne Price.

Thomas Larson's 'The Saddest Music Ever Written,' reviewed by Michael Dirda 2010

For two tickets to an opera you can now buy a computer and watch Leontyne Price and Joan Sutherland on YouTube for free!

Michael Kaiser: Why Ticket Prices Must Change 2010

In Hall's relatively austere Aida (1976), the black soprano Leontyne Price reflected that "the colour of my skin became my costume".

Peter J Hall obituary David Jays 2010

His love of opera had begun, said Wainwright, when his mother – "not a huge opera fan but someone who followed the great tenors" – played him a recording of Verdi's Requiem as a teenager, with Jussi Björling and Leontyne Price.

Rufus Wainwright to take up Royal Opera House residency Charlotte Higgins 2010

Theyve studied great opera divas like Leontyne Price, attended the symphony, and taken yoga classes.

Camp Introduces The Texting Generation To Opera 2010

Theyve studied great opera divas like Leontyne Price, attended the symphony, and taken yoga classes.

Camp Introduces The Texting Generation To Opera 2010