Leontyne Price sings "My Man's Gone Now"

From Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Gala of Stars, with Beverly Sills and James Levine. 1980

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[Trinite33]

Statistically, yes, there are fewer blacks interested in opera, but race really is the basis of blacks being all but totally excluded from opera, especially black men. When romance is involved on the opera stage, managers do not want to pair black men and white women. However, it is okay for them to pair black women and white men, And that is racism, of the plantation variety..

[Trinite33]

Maria Callas was notorious for putting other singers down and belittling their talents. She certainly thought she was the best ever. Price, however, is extremely generous in her praise of other singers, but she has said about herself, "I am the best, and when you hear me, you will know it!" And she is right!

[ksarai35]

@kaloolee PREACH!!!

[Tamaresque]

The tempo is too fast for a lament!

[rockandbluesboy]

@kaloolee totally true unfortunally!!! I study opera too in italy, and it is the same up here!! good voice, but also good looks!!!

[kaloolee]

@eyesk8er actually opera has gone hollywood, so his statement still stands, i sing opera, its my major, and i know for a fact that the standards of just a good voice as changed from that to a good voice and good looks, and a slim body

[eyesk8er]

@Trinite33 I think your comments are over 20 years late. That is absolutely not true any more; if you attended operas you'd know that. It's all about talent today. Give me a break, go see an opera. You might be suprised.

PS: I'm a Black opera fan & judging from your comment I'd bet you aren't.

[wTrevorh]

She blows the top off of this classic!!!!

[dallen2454]

i love her voice, she is still the best!



[Trinite33]

@songsofscarlet I am not certain what your intent is in posting this very well known quote of La Price, and I hope it is not to deny the truth that racism really does exist in opera, ballet, movies, TV, politics, religion and everything else. The question is, why do some wish to deny it or to cover it up. The truth is served only when it is recognized. An evil cannot be redressed if we deny its existence. Without that recognition there would never have been a Ghandi or a Martin Luther King, Jr.

[songsofscarlet]

@Trinite33 "I never talk about difficulties, once the success is there it is not only boring, it is exhasperating to think about them. No achievement has anything, except for what it is destined to be. It has no color, it has no religion, it has you and your God given talent. Go out this door and use it. Never let anything negative be in the way of your focus to achieve. It is so boring to hear people whine about everything being so hard. No thank you, I'm not the person to do that." ~ L. Price

[Trinite33]

@cuoredeinidi Bye bye.