Leontyne Price - Amsterdam Quotes- 1996

[tatters1232006]

I LOVE HER,I WORSHIP HER

[flyinghow]

Thank you God for Leontyne Price! Brava!

[ninosimone]

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[ninosimone]

LOVE HER

[VoiceClassical]

@ninosimone I love the woman also... very human... very real...

[ninosimone]

@VoiceClassical check Lilian Roberts she is awesome.

[VoiceClassical]

@ninosimone To be sure... Verrett, Hendricks, Bumbry, Grist, Sir Willard White, Kathleen Battle & Leona Mitchel Her Liu... gosh!)... the list goes on. And the Mama of them all... Marian Anderson.

Jessye Norman... my word! Just magnificent... magnificent...

[TrevorDaniels]

Go head Ms. Price! I liked the discussion about prejudice and the emotion in her voice. My family is from the south as well, and I recognize her sentiment very well...

[highbaritone]

When I was a young student I got to turn pages for one of her concerts. Amazing, it maid me want to stop turning pages and sit in the audience because I was missing too much. God what a voice of seamless singing it was

[LohengrinT]

"I've done all my homework... what has been black got to do it with it!" (7:54)

[BGSourgas]

7'55: when i heard the chair move i thought she was going to pick it up and throw it!! Holy s@#t this lady is awesome

[SENAFOREVER]

" Vive la différence!"

[antonio63553]

Leontyne Price is the best black or white

[Ofelia00]

100*

yo sigo dejando

estrellas,

besooooooooooooo

[MissFireMagic]

I love her! What a brilliant, shining light! And the beautiful photographs!

[brodsky96]

thank you for this HISTORICAL MOMENT!!!

[RIRRATTO]

Her singing in not always so much passionate ! Fascinating photographs...

[sirenadellopera]

I didn't understand what she was referring to me when she says, so passionately "That, to me, is predjudice!". Help, anyone?

[Jokanaan]

@sirenadellopera I wondered the same thing. I think she means that it's a form of prejudice when critics bring up her race in reviews--or maybe when they compare her to other black singers. That's my guess.

[liedersanger1]

@sirenadellopera I think she means this--that to talk about a new singer as the "New Leontyne price" or about another black singer as "Not as good as Leontyne Price" or , for that matter, to assert that "Leontyne Price is the greatest Africa-American soprano" is to focus on a racial category, rather than the full category in which the person being referred to SHOULD BE judged. Pigeon-holing based on race--even when it's meant to be a compliment--that too is prejudice.

[sirenadellopera]

@liedersanger1 I agree.

[dsenRuskin]

What she says reveals what a tremendous person she is. What her colleagues say about her reveals even more. People like Sherrill Milnes, Marilyn Horne, and Shirley Verrett--their praise of her is uniform.

[maipisimo67]

@dsenRuskin At minute 4:10 photo Renata Tebaldi is who has the most commanding presence and the one who is better dressed of the three

[operbathosa]

Leontyne Price makes some classic statements in this 'interview', especially: "the world is better....the world has a pretty good Diva". She is an Afro-American, and her contribution to her art is important; as it is to the world of opera. TY for posting R.

[sketL]

Thanks for reposting this. Denyce Graves said that to hear Leontyne Price sing is to hear the voice of God. I would like to add that to hear her speak is to hear His wisdom.

[leonardovittori1]

@sketL And that is saying something, because Ms. Graves is pretty close to that level herself.. My goodness what voices on these women!

[sillyboydeux]

@sketL I wish so much that you all could have been at the 1981 Met Opera Trovatores that she sang with Giuseppe Giacomini. They were, in my esteem, the greatest nights she ever had in her entire career. The voice, mature but completely firm, was a personal gift indescribable in its melody and beauty, to each member of the audience. She had perfected that role in a way that Verdi would have loved by her devotion to all that the score offers a singer of her capacity.

[mtbrown75]

These pictures are divine

[Chasson0318]

Wow!!!! Mama is letting them have it! Good God!!

[SENAFOREVER]

Actually she is a true spiritual Master. What a wisdom...

[SENAFOREVER]

I LOVE HER!!! I am so grateful to the Universe for enjoying her.

[harpguy18]

yes she is preaching!!!!!