Leontyne Price
Leontyne Price (born 1927) is an American soprano, one of the greatest opera singers of the twentieth century. She is especially celebrated in Verdi, Puccini and Barber.
In the Pristine catalogue she appears in Puccini and Verdi, including Tosca with Karajan and Il trovatore at the Metropolitan Opera with Franco Corelli.
Price’s singing combines velvet richness, soaring line and extraordinary dignity. Her voice...
PUCCINI Tosca
Studio recording, 1962
Total duration: 1hr 52:58
Leontyne Price - Floria Tosca
Giuseppe di Stefano - Cavaradossi
Giuseppe Taddei - Scarpia
Carlo Cava - Angelotti
Piero de Palma - Spoletta
Vienna State Opera Chorus
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Herbert von Karajan
VERDI Il Trovatore
Live broadcast recording
Total duration: 2hr 11:59
Manrico - Franco Corelli
Leonora - Leontyne Price
Azucena - Irene Dalis
Conte di Luna - Mario Sereni
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra
conducted by Fausto Cleva
J STRAUSS II Die Fledermaus: Ballet & Gala (various composers)
J STRAUSS II Waltzes and Overtures
Recorded Vienna 1960 and Berlin 1940-42
Total duration: 74:28
Renata Tebaldi, Birgit Nilsson,
Jussi Björling, Leontyne Price
Ettore Bastianini, Joan Sutherland
Ljuba Welitsch et al
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra & State Opera Chorus
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan, conductor
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 "Choral"
Recorded live in 1958, New York
Total duration: 66:35
Leontyne Price, Soprano
Maureen Forrester, Alto
Leopold Simoneau, Tenor
Norman Scott, Bass
Westminster Choir
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Herbert von Karajan
