Leontyne Price -"I Loves You, Porgy"- Berlin 9/21/1952

[jeanpizzle]

Only if the marriage had been as magnifying as those two voices, wow. Can you imagine the talented children those two would have produced. I love her voice, every aspect of it, and his is also a double wow. "Show Boat"

[chasmnblue]

She actually was 65 at the time she sang Zweite Brautnacht at Carnegie Hall. Peter Jennings, who with Beverly Sills, hosted the TV performance, was astounded when he found out she was 65. She neither looked it nor sounded like it.

[zmoney682]

That Smallens family has good musical blood in them...

[kittgriff]

I got chills listening to her. Beautiful.

[paulostroff99]

As good as it has ever been sung! Brava diva!

[wilsontt88]

Beautiful!

[paulostroff99]

Magnificent! Brava! TY.

[tatters1232006]

SHE IS JUST THE GREATEST

[tatters1232006]

SHE IS JUST!!! THE GREATEST

[OldHollywood1]

Wow. She makes me want to weap bc her voice is so pure. the audience is lame.

[jeffchester]

She showed in Europe which in our country denied  him, but it could later because she's a song Goddess

[encore2jour]

OMG. This IS the performance I saw in Amsterdam! Onegin65 thanks again. When I spoke to the great Spanish Diva Victoria de los Angeles during her last tour in Australia, I asked her what she thought of Leontyne Price: Ah, she has such a wonderful and unique voice! (we were talking about other singers of her time)

[laddnyc]

Onegin65 I worship at your shrine! You bring me so many tears of joy!! This is fantastic and a lesson to those who criticized the great Diva Price!!! Even 30 years into her career she maintained a glorious and healthy command of a voice from GOD! To those who critcize her mannerisms and "scooping" of her final years need only listen to these early recordings to know how brilliant her technique was-enabling her to sound just as fresh, particularly in upper register, as she did in her youth!

[khamikins]

@laddnyc I actually like the scooping of her later years. it made her human somehow. Still equally as beautiful I think.

[bcom11]

@laddnyc actually......she only had a brief bit of "scooping" in the 70s. By the 80s, some of her singing was even better in her 60's than it'd been in her younger years. For example, her Carnegie "Zweite Brautnacht" from 1991, is FAR better and more impressive than any of her younger recordings/performances of that aria...and many agree. AND she was like 61 there.

[johngarner3]

this is aaaaammmmmmazing

[Pawobrat]

My God! I never thought that this could exist. Miss Price so young and already sings so well. There is complete recording of this? Thank you very much, this is a terrific treasure!!!