Leontyne Price sings "My Man's Gone Now"

From Corporation for public broadcasting Telecast (C) Societé Radio-Canada 1982

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Music

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• Onegin65
• Opera
• Gershwin
• Porgy
• and
• Bess
• Leontyne
• Price

[lilslim83]

she's not screaming she's just sings from her chest on part, it's called being classicaly trained

[augur999]

That "joltiness" is her signature singing style..No one can sing like that and get away with it..She's made it her own..Like it or not, it's here to stay !!!

[princeandrey]

I love Leontyne Price, but I don't care for this rendition very much. Her head voice is too abrupt, so it doesn't flow naturally from the chest voice. The emotional connection is lost in the mechanics of the transfer. I'm not sure she has the right emotional connection in the first place, pacing it, as she does, so quickly. The voice itself is, of course, pure beauty, but in this case, to what end?

[jeanpizzle]

I patterned my singing after you, You are have been and always will be the best, most amazing gift of voice and heart. Thank you so much for sharing such a great gift with the world.

Always an admirer, My dream was always to sing not only like you but with you. You retired much too soon.

Njeanpierre P.S. We are now three generations of classical singers because of you.

[babs22hh]

@augur999 it is her signature style and BRAVA TO LEONTYNE! i dont particularly like it in this piece; thats just my opinion ;-) and arent we all entitled to one?:-)

[babs22hh]

@lilslim83 exactly and sense she is classically trained she's obviously using her chest voice for effect here. I dont happen to like it...particularly because she sounds like she has two distint vocies... head and chest; instead of a seamless single voice which is more classical. I prefer other verions where the head and chest voice are less distinct

[sprinter848]

@hangout2007 you are a true music lover...you hear with your heart.

[albertthrelkeld]

Ms. Price is certainly due her laurels, and her place in operatic history is secure. However, this performance spotlights Ms. Price's grave weakness: the lower register was always unfocused. I don't care for the chest singing she does here. I hear two disconnected voices here. Leontyne's was a large, rich voice that didn't have a lot of frontal ping to project it. The lower register was pushed a bit. That and her incessant sliding bother me in this performance.

[liedersanger1]

@Arnold3135 I agree with you!

[southprince69]

2:50 is just priceless...God I love her...she feels it!

[hangout2007]

Heart wrenching, a requiem superbly done, with unbelievable operatic wailing and moans of grief. Breathtaking, exhaustingly sad.

[blessOTMA]

You need a voice like this for this song...it needs this power. Thank you Miss Price