Leontyne Price & Beverly Sills Smile

[Leanrosso]

Divinas!!!!! Divas totales... muy graciosa la anecdota!!!

[VoiceClassical]

I think I may very well be in love with La Price... what a voice! What a human being!

[caltrask51]

lol!!

[matthieusarah]

lovely



[higharch]

What did she sing, right before this lovely exchange?

[chicagomarchingbands]

@higharch my mans gone now

[nostopsnopurgatory]

Thats funny! "No, I'm not. I'm Beverly Sills"

haha

[Arya2611]

funny.....

[pianomags]

oh my god - HA! The best thing I've heard in a while. Will highlight as a favourite, thanks for posting x

[whatsreallyhoodbitch]

HILARIOUS

[JeeRant]

I loved her anecdote, but how could a person possibly mistake Leontyne Price for Joan Sutherland? They don't look ANYTHING alike...

[liedersanger1]

I think THAT's the joke.

[adrian993]

As Joan Sutherland is caucasian...and Leontyne Price is black, to say "they don't look ANYTHING alike" is a huge understatement (which of course what makes the story so funny...)

[chocolatesouljah]

I am opera fan. But a music lover above all. It seems so many are either or and musical snobbery is what keeps so many people away from classical. I know dumb opera fans and smart gangsta rap aficionados. In her prime Beverly Sills sang pop songs and showtunes. One of the last clips my late Mother saw was of Price in Aida. Yet she was also a Madonna fan!

[swanningaround]

chocolate. That is complete and utter rubbish. There ios far more snobbery in the pop world. I have seen well known opera singers going out to lunch and queueing up like everyone else. Well known pop singers are surrounded by entourages, stay at five star hotels, and expect to be treated like royalty. Opera people are also far more down to earth. The pop people make me sick with their snobbery.

[chocolatesouljah]

I was actually speaking of the snobbery of opera fans not the singers. Which if you re-read my comment the 3 and 4th words are opera fan. You are over reacting. I have met a few opera singers in my time, Price, Norman & Fleming. Granted very fan and star coincidences but all were very warm and gracious. I actually have very little judgment in that vein. I simply grow weary of youtube fans lambasting other idioms and the comments of others. You being one of them!

[swanningaround]

Chocolate. I am not over reacting. I cannot speak for youtube fans, although I do note that comments on various pop singers are way OTT to my mind. When most people talk about snobbery, they are refering to the patrons, artists and the whole celebrity thing, not the fans. Most top pop people are very unapproachable to my mind - try to enter Madonna's select world! Also, most opera fans are also into pop music too. Many pop fan do not want to know anything about opera. Now that's snobbery!

[chocolatesouljah]

Wow!

[CalifaJohn]

I see your point about pop stars with their entourages, but in my 25 year experience with opera, I have perceived the artists to be mostly down to earth, but the fans are often ridiculous with their snobbery. Certainly the rudest audiences I have ever experienced have been at the opera. I love the art form, but I am not crazy about opera fans.

[swanningaround]

CalifaJohn. Interesting. I can imagine that many of the opera fans could be snobby (and stupid). I guess we all need a reality check sometimes. :)

[nohpiano]

EXACTLY - the greatest artists are always the most down to earth and easiest to work with.

[ksarai35]

@swanningaround PREACH!!!

[mozzrt]

In Geddas memoirs, he describes these two. Despite that he loved working with Sills, she was obsessed with being not a singer but a star. Her letters shoud be placed at the top and the other actors - no matter how big roles they had - names must be in small letters and placed below hers.

Price got top scores both as a singer and as a human being.

[ncrunch]

thank you for sharing this anecdote.

[mozzrt]

Well that was HIS views, I don't know if it is the truth! He didn't like Moffo (a *Hollywood* singer) nor Schwartzkopf or Della Casa, but adored De Los Angeles (as did Bjoerling) and Freni, telling that no matter how big they were, they were always humble and nice to everyone. End of gossip!

[Houndentenor1998]

I love it!

[conmaleta]

I like when leontyne rises her hand like showing her ring, in a way and bevs stares to it..." you are quite a singer, and That some tone!! lol....it's a little joke, eh? i love them both, great artists, that u can't find now in the opera world

[yodavidnavarro]

We're living modern times, so many advices make our lives easier, I'm typing in a laptop that I think I can't live without. Internet, MP3s, DVDs, credit cards, supermalls, TV cable. But what is really missed is the real, the true talent of great artist. Too many comercial releases of talentless people singing stupid songs. So called sopranos pretending they're the best. In fact they are the best we can hear. But they're nothing compared with great ladies like these two!

[Andante735]

Yes, modern as they are, all these things you mention have often dulled minds socially; especially teenagers. I could easily live without most of those items apart from the advantages of the internet. I engage myself in holding a book, reading it and relishing the tactile sensations and fragrance of paper, not molded metal. Nothing personal, just needed to say that.

[blackaristo]

I could not agree with you more! I see it every day with the young people I work with. The video age, wardrobe malfunctions and other tricks to generate attention, are often used to disguise the fact that so many of today's "Artists" are frauds. the only way to fix this, is to expose children from a VERY earl age to true talent. that is one of the great things about YouTube. That we can show them these performances.

[Andante735]

Thanks, it's always nice to know you're not the only one. It's obvious we live in the age of technology, but all these things are tools, not replacements or convenient excuses. Its's still NOT OK to use email or text messaging for proper, serious correspondence or communications as an example. It's parents who look the other way, and choose not to pay attention that are adding to all this.

[jhughessings]

You'll be happy to know as a 23 year old who works at a music store, I agree 100%. I mostly listen to music that was recorded before the advent of rock. Just thought you should know not EVERY young person is ignorant, mindless and easily appeased by mass marketed mediocrity. Before there was Price now there's Netrebko. In jazz once there was Holiday now we get Krall...and don't get me started on pop and that NON-music called "gansta rap".

[blackaristo]

As my post indicates rather clearly, I was referring to the young people that I work with on my job. In fact, this has been true on every job I have had over the past8 years. I am more that well aware of young people who have no uses for the so called talent of the popular culture's current stable of artists.

Fitzgerald, Ellington, Webster, Coltrane, Anderson, Bumbry, Verett, Te Kanawa, Sills ( A Brooklyn Girl!) In art Tanner, Van Dyck... get the picture?

[jhughessings]

I think you misunderstood the tone of my reply. I wasn't being argumentative I'm agreeing. Just though you would like to here from a young person who isn't completely ignorant to anything that happened before 1992 (Because sadly, most don't).

[blackaristo]

No Worries! I am absolutely delighted to hear from a young person who feels the same way! It certainly raises my spirits!

You are right about Pre 1992. I am blown away by the lack of knowledge vis a vis cultural reference that I am rendered mute.

[RVP57]

I have to agree.. I live in London and have worked with younger folk both on the opera stage and in retail. I'm astonished especially at my younger operatic colleagues who don't know of Price or Sills or Farrell or Flagstad or Merill or Tucker or...I could go on and on. It's all about Nathan Gunn's pecs or Fleming's latest gown. At least my co-workers at the shop were impressed when I brought in Price's and Sutherland's Christmas albums a few seasons back. There's always hope!

[sandytheslayer]

Does anyone know, were they friends off the stage?? I know Caballe and Carreras are good friends, but wouldn't it be lovely to hear that Bev called up Leontyne every Sunday afternoon for a quick gossip!

[yodavidnavarro]

LOL...Great...

[sandytheslayer]

Best video ever!

[johngotwalt]

She can make breakfast for me any day.

[Opreaismylife10692]

LOL!

[iTubeVlc]

What did she say after "...I was buying an article and I wanted to ?? to it"

[handelfan610]

i think she said she wanted to mate to it...you know match it. i think this clip is dear she has such a nice speaking voice as well as a singing voice

[franciscusliszt]

But what does it mean, to mate to, or match it? (Sorry for my bad English).

Yes, they are such darlings, aren't they?

[handelfan610]

it was kind of like she was buying a blouse but wanted to find a skirt to go with it...like she was making an outfit.

[LeeVita19]

Such a beautiful moment with two great women!!!  Ms. Price is so elegant!!! Thank you for this video clip.

[raigekimaru]

such a charismatic duo

[tetrazzini]

they are so cute !

[StarRaft]

that reminds me, martina arroyo was often mistaken by fans as "leontyne price," and she'd often reply, "no, honey, i'm not miss price, i'm grace bumbry!" or "no, i'm the OTHER one." arroyo was famous for her sense of humor and one-liners. too bad she did not record much, and even on youtube, there's not a lot of her work.

[raycanto76]

too funny

[ktpj]

A delightful tribute. Two of the world's greatest singers. Two of the world's greatest people. Thanks for sharing this with their legions of fans.

[g420730a]

Such a wonderful moment! Thank you for posting this especially that We still can't believe Sills has just passed away.

[ncrunch]

the divas know how to have fun!!!

[Greatfan]

This is great. I think I saw a reduced version of this video. I thought it was complete...In fact there is one in which they cut the Burnett Sills duet, believe it or not. This Price ' s story is very cute and funny !

[iheartverdi]

too cute

[conmaleta]

Leo is so refined!!!

[courtneybaritone01]

This is adorable!

[petelovesbevsills]

Yummy Bev and Lee!!!! How heartwarming to see these two opera greats together. Thanks for the clip!!

[Pagudo]

Go even of true great Divas!! Very likeable video, thanks for posting this

[brindleness]

I am in heaven!

[FoggyRoad81]

Adorable! eeeee! Divatastic

[sentheru]

Cute, cuuuute!