She always sang with such regal grace! So "simple and easy" looking, but it twas not that easy! And I always loved how she always acknowledges the orchestra/pianist, before accepting the audience applause :)
I've seen Madame Price twice in concert 1974 & in 1985 the same year she retired from the operatic stage. In 74 we had never heard such an incredible dazzling vocal display. We had never heard anything like it her voice was so Primal and true as to how she interpreted Verdi , Puccini, Motzart. Madden Price is the greatest voice to come out of America. That is not debatable it is true. And in increble dignified stage presence. So beautiful regal and refined. I have had four favorite Sopranos Our Montse. Madame Cotrubas Madame Price & our Maya LA Divina. Today we have Madame Hernandez. Thank you for posting. Sincerely Arnaud Bourbon Amaral 🇫🇷
Thank you for posting this! This is her Dec. 10, 1963 UN Day appearance in the General Assembly, with her coach Otto Guth accompanying. And you’re quite right, she’s at her early peak, at 36.
@@fabriziogarzi9892 Do you mean a song recital? Her 1965 recital debut in Carnegie Hall was brought out by RCA under the “Rediscovered” series. That is available on UA-cam here: ua-cam.com/play/OLAK5uy_lnl6KyglNGf3RJSWpmj-9SisuJtmUjqJg.html If you mean a video of a recital, there are excerpts on UA-cam from recitals in 1976 and 1994 - - but unfortunately none of her hundreds of recitals was videotaped professionally.
I saw Leontyne Price sing "Pace, pace" in 1996 at Symphony Hall in Boston. I was sitting in the last row, and even then, 33 years after this performance and at 69 years old, she was thrilling. One of a kind. By the way, does anyone know what this occasion was? People seem to be sitting at desks with scores in front of them.
@@flyinghow she started to get sloppy with words and rhythms, odd straight tones and peculiar swooping. However this doesn’t take away from her extraordinary uniqueness
@@stephenlord9 Got it. The scooping was a big thing. Von Karajan called her out on it and she cleaned it up. But as you said, amazing voice. She was my #1
Why do you think we are talking about her later weaknesses when we have an example here of her singing at its best? It’s like talking about Tebaldi’s flat high notes or Callas’ wobble in their later years when confronted with their great singing. Every singer deteriorates, but the truly great ones continue to offer something, as did Leontyne in her later performances.
She sounds great here! Her vowels are still clear at this stage and hand't developed that cloudy, muddy, unclear vocal production that plagued her later years. Even her lower notes are stronger. Those low notes were just gasps of hollow air later on
What unnecessary points! We're given an example of Leontyne at in her early prime, singing this sorry as beautifully as anyone ever did, and you can only complain about her weaknesses in her "later years." Every voice deteriorates. I can’t think of one that didn’t, but Leontyne held onto more of her particular vocal beauty than most. Proof? Here is performance of "Pace, pace" 19 years later, which, by the way, is a long time for a singer--so take your b****in somewhere else. ua-cam.com/video/uGkRqItf03U/v-deo.htmlsi=aqeByWJGBQnUIZtf
@@liedersanger1 you obviously can’t separate being a fan from being an observer of quality sound. Her low notes were always a travesty and you could barely understand what she was saying, same as Sutherland, whose diction was atrocious, despite her other vocal talents. That is a technique issue, not a deteriorating voice issue. Price had a beautiful voice but it was plagued with other issues that worsened as she aged. Listen to Tebaldi, Nilson, Boninsegna, Traubel in the same aria and you won’t find those lower note issues, and all had clear vowels production. No singer is perfect and all had some sort of flaw but anytime someone remotely mentions an issue with Price, regardless of other praise given, the operatic shit hits the fan and people lose it.
The best singers express with their voices. Price is one of them. Expression does not equate to chewing up the scenery, like so many sopranos do today to distract from poor singing and technique. It takes real physical discipline to sustain this sound. Others who knew this that pop into my head immediately: Nilsson, Tebaldi, TeKanawa, Freni, Cosotto, the list goes on, but a pantheon of greats. Hold the chest high, create a streaming core of sound. Express the music with the text and score. No writhing around the stage.
@@SteveL2012 I'm not talking about stage deportment or physical acting, only about how expressive the singing is. For me, Price's expressiveness was always much more generalized than particular and pointed. It lacked the thousands of colors and the light and shadows and word-pointing you hear from the great interpreters. I think some of this might be due to the fact that Price was madly in love with her own sound, as she admitted many times in interviews. I think that resulted in her always putting the "Price Sound" first and foremost, and the voice never became that of Aida, or Leonora, or Liu, etc. It was always always always Price, and it was an absolutely gorgeous outpouring of beauty. I love her for what she was and what she gave so generously. If I want to bask and soak in beautiful sounds, I listen to her. When I want to know the character, I look elsewhere. That being said, I don't think anyone can hold a candle to her Bess.
@@ShahrdadYou both make some valid points. Price is vocally unmatched in most of her roles. The glory of her sound is before anything else. There are subtleties in her interpretive choices, but not huge overt acting differentiations. She does respect Verdi greatly and can bring out his line as very few have been able to do so well. Leontyne brings out the grand in Grand Opera. You want deep sensitivity in acting go to Callas.
@@sw5114 There is nothing disingenuous about it. The singing is magnificent, and there is the word-pointing and coloring and fire that she does as Bess which I have not heard in any of her other performances. Perhaps it had something to do with singing in her mother tongue or singing in a role that she had performed hundreds of times on stage. But I have to yet hear anyone come within a hundred miles of her in that role.
Lots of singers can impress, but Leontyne MOVES you.
BRAVA LEONESSA!!!
I knew it was a matter of time before some of the goodies of legend would start to be released. Thank you for posting!
She always sang with such regal grace! So "simple and easy" looking, but it twas not that easy! And I always loved how she always acknowledges the orchestra/pianist, before accepting the audience applause :)
... OMG !!!!!!!!
... I CAN' T RESIST ...
...I LOVE LEONTYNE PRICE !!!!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
What glorious voice!
What a treasure. Thank you for posting!
She looks absolutely stunning ❤
Grato Leontine! One of my favorite sopranos!!!❤❤❤❤❤
I've seen Madame Price twice in concert 1974 & in 1985 the same year she retired from the operatic stage. In 74 we had never heard such an incredible dazzling vocal display. We had never heard anything like it her voice was so Primal and true as to how she interpreted Verdi , Puccini, Motzart. Madden Price is the greatest voice to come out of America. That is not debatable it is true. And in increble dignified stage presence. So beautiful regal and refined. I have had four favorite Sopranos Our Montse. Madame Cotrubas Madame Price & our Maya LA Divina. Today we have Madame Hernandez. Thank you for posting. Sincerely Arnaud Bourbon Amaral 🇫🇷
Gorgeous and extremely talented. She also carries an immense presence to command her audience.
Thank you for posting this! This is her Dec. 10, 1963 UN Day appearance in the General Assembly, with her coach Otto Guth accompanying. And you’re quite right, she’s at her early peak, at 36.
No I’m not from Australia!! I have not heard about her Sydney 1957 appearances
Non esista una recita completa della Price negli anni 60?
@@fabriziogarzi9892 Do you mean a song recital? Her 1965 recital debut in Carnegie Hall was brought out by RCA under the “Rediscovered” series. That is available on UA-cam here: ua-cam.com/play/OLAK5uy_lnl6KyglNGf3RJSWpmj-9SisuJtmUjqJg.html
If you mean a video of a recital, there are excerpts on UA-cam from recitals in 1976 and 1994 - - but unfortunately none of her hundreds of recitals was videotaped professionally.
Just three weeks after JFK was assassinated.
Quel formidable document ! Miss Price au zénith de son incomparable talent ... mille merci pour ce partage :)) ...
Thank you so much for sharing this! She is DIVINA ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💯
She got so much better with age. ❤❤❤ We love 💕 you LEONTYNE
Thank you for this!! Brava La Price, this is simply Verdi singing at its best!!
Legend
Stunning!!!
Absolutely brilliant and gorgeous. ♥️♥️♥️
Prima Donna Assoluta!!! Brava!!!
Heaven on Earth! ❤
Grazie Opera❤Quest’aria non è facile, soprattutto al pianoforte, ma la Price è brava
Brava!!! Simply Divine!!!
Brava La Price! Gorgeous looking, gorgeous sounding! Thank you OperaMyWorld for sharing.
A fabulous talent and lady
Her use of ascending legato is amazing🎉
Fabulous!
Fantastic find!
Thank you for sharing
A gift to humanity!
Sounds like milk and honey to my ears ❤
Ειδικά αυτόν τον ρόλο τον τραγουδούσε πολύ ωραία.
Ευχαριστώ, φίλε μου.
Ακριβώς!!! Όπως την Λεωνόρα στον Τροβατόρε και, βέβαια, την Αΐντα
Such a DIVA!!!!!!
Wow!
Sublime
Absolutamente IMPRESIONANTE. BRAVA.
Es en la Sede de la ONU en NY.
I love Leontyne! 🥰🥰🥰
Maravilhosa!
She owns this aria❤️❤️❤️
Sorry, Zinka Milanov "owns" this aria.
@@unclelouie3828 except for Zinka’s pitch problems.
That would be Tebaldi or Ponselle
There is no much variety of dynamics, the final top Bflat in the last maledizione is totally lyric
Love the swishy exit 💃🏿
Всё божественно - и музыка, и исполнение!
I saw Leontyne Price sing "Pace, pace" in 1996 at Symphony Hall in Boston. I was sitting in the last row, and even then, 33 years after this performance and at 69 years old, she was thrilling. One of a kind.
By the way, does anyone know what this occasion was? People seem to be sitting at desks with scores in front of them.
See my note above.
@@liedersanger1 Thanks. I just spotted it.
❤️❤️❤️
So beautiful… Much prefer this to her studio recording.
Huge fan here, especially this period before her "isms" distracted. This is clean and fabulous. But always great.
Isms?
@@flyinghow she started to get sloppy with words and rhythms, odd straight tones and peculiar swooping. However this doesn’t take away from her extraordinary uniqueness
@@stephenlord9 Got it. The scooping was a big thing. Von Karajan called her out on it and she cleaned it up. But as you said, amazing voice. She was my #1
Rubbish.
Why do you think we are talking about her later weaknesses when we have an example here of her singing at its best?
It’s like talking about Tebaldi’s flat high notes or Callas’ wobble in their later years when confronted with their great singing. Every singer deteriorates, but the truly great ones continue to offer something, as did Leontyne in her later performances.
how many more bouts of tear is this lady going to cause me?
👏🏿
She sounds great here! Her vowels are still clear at this stage and hand't developed that cloudy, muddy, unclear vocal production that plagued her later years. Even her lower notes are stronger. Those low notes were just gasps of hollow air later on
What unnecessary points! We're given an example of Leontyne at in her early prime, singing this sorry as beautifully as anyone ever did, and you can only complain about her weaknesses in her "later years." Every voice deteriorates. I can’t think of one that didn’t, but Leontyne held onto more of her particular vocal beauty than most.
Proof? Here is performance of "Pace, pace" 19 years later, which, by the way, is a long time for a singer--so take your b****in somewhere else. ua-cam.com/video/uGkRqItf03U/v-deo.htmlsi=aqeByWJGBQnUIZtf
@@liedersanger1 you obviously can’t separate being a fan from being an observer of quality sound. Her low notes were always a travesty and you could barely understand what she was saying, same as Sutherland, whose diction was atrocious, despite her other vocal talents. That is a technique issue, not a deteriorating voice issue. Price had a beautiful voice but it was plagued with other issues that worsened as she aged. Listen to Tebaldi, Nilson, Boninsegna, Traubel in the same aria and you won’t find those lower note issues, and all had clear vowels production. No singer is perfect and all had some sort of flaw but anytime someone remotely mentions an issue with Price, regardless of other praise given, the operatic shit hits the fan and people lose it.
@@St.Garoosh you seem like fun
@@brandonjamar Im the life of the opera party at the yarn barn🤣
Mit Klavierbegleitung verliert die Arie alles. Aber Leontyne Price natürlich großartig.
Уникальный голос!!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐❤❤❤❤❤❤💐
she has neshomme!
Not the most expressive or illuminating singer, but God I love her!! The most beautiful sound ever to come out of a human throat.
The best singers express with their voices. Price is one of them. Expression does not equate to chewing up the scenery, like so many sopranos do today to distract from poor singing and technique. It takes real physical discipline to sustain this sound. Others who knew this that pop into my head immediately: Nilsson, Tebaldi, TeKanawa, Freni, Cosotto, the list goes on, but a pantheon of greats. Hold the chest high, create a streaming core of sound. Express the music with the text and score. No writhing around the stage.
@@SteveL2012 I'm not talking about stage deportment or physical acting, only about how expressive the singing is. For me, Price's expressiveness was always much more generalized than particular and pointed. It lacked the thousands of colors and the light and shadows and word-pointing you hear from the great interpreters. I think some of this might be due to the fact that Price was madly in love with her own sound, as she admitted many times in interviews. I think that resulted in her always putting the "Price Sound" first and foremost, and the voice never became that of Aida, or Leonora, or Liu, etc. It was always always always Price, and it was an absolutely gorgeous outpouring of beauty. I love her for what she was and what she gave so generously. If I want to bask and soak in beautiful sounds, I listen to her. When I want to know the character, I look elsewhere. That being said, I don't think anyone can hold a candle to her Bess.
@@ShahrdadYou both make some valid points. Price is vocally unmatched in most of her roles. The glory of her sound is before anything else. There are subtleties in her interpretive choices, but not huge overt acting differentiations. She does respect Verdi greatly and can bring out his line as very few have been able to do so well. Leontyne brings out the grand in Grand Opera. You want deep sensitivity in acting go to Callas.
@@ShahrdadBTW could have done without the comment on Price and Bess. Rather disingenuous.
@@sw5114 There is nothing disingenuous about it. The singing is magnificent, and there is the word-pointing and coloring and fire that she does as Bess which I have not heard in any of her other performances. Perhaps it had something to do with singing in her mother tongue or singing in a role that she had performed hundreds of times on stage. But I have to yet hear anyone come within a hundred miles of her in that role.
The most glorious soprano sound, yet one of the most wooden in dramatic expression.
I don’t think we are witnessing the same thing.
Couldn't disagree more.
@@liedersanger1 She doesn't know how to act with the voice.
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