Leontyne Price - Puccini- Tosca by Leontyne Price [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Mary Violet Leontyne Price (born February 10, 1927) is an American soprano who was the first African American soprano to receive international acclaim. From 1961 she began a long association with the Metropolitan Opera, where she was the first African American to be a leading performer. She regularly appeared at the world's major opera houses, the Royal Opera House, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and La Scala, the last at which she was also the first African American to sing a leading role. She was particularly renowned for her performances of the title role in Verdi's Aida.

Born in Laurel, Mississippi, Price attended Central State University and then Juilliard, where she had her operatic debut as Mistress Ford in Verdi's Falstaff. Having heard the performance, Virgil Thomson engaged her in Four Saints in Three Acts and she then toured—starring alongside her husband William Warfield—in a successful revival of Gerswhin's Porgy and Bess. Numerous concert performances followed, such as a recital at the Library of Congress with composer Samuel Barber on piano. Her 1955 performance in a televised performance of Puccini's Tosca and appearances at the San Francisco Opera as Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites and Aida brought her to international attention. She then performed at the world's major opera houses with Aida, before a successful debut at the Metropolitan Opera (Met) in 1961 as Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore. Continuing her career there, she starred in a multitude of operas for 20 years, securing her place among the leading performers of her time. One of these works was Barber's Antony and Cleopatra, which she starred in for its world premiere. She made her farewell opera performance at the Met in 1985 in Aida.

TRACKLIST

1. Leontyne Price - "Ah! Finalmente!" - Act 1, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
2. Leontyne Price - "E sempre lava!…Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae…Che fai?" - Act 1, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
3. Leontyne Price - "Dammi i colori!…Recondita armonia" - Act 1, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
4. Leontyne Price - "Voi! Cavaradossi!" - Act 1, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
5. Leontyne Price - "Mario! Mario! Mario!…Son qui!…Mia gelosa!" - Act 1, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
6. Leontyne Price - "E buona la mia Tosca…Siam soli?" - Act 1, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
7. Leontyne Price - "Sommo giubilo, Eccelenza!" - Act 1, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
8. Leontyne Price - "Un tal baccano in chiesa! Bel rispetto!" - Act 1, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
9. Leontyne Price - "Or tutto è chiaro … Mario? Mario?" - Act 1, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
10. Leontyne Price - "Tre sbirri… Una carozza… Presto" Te Deum - Act 1, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
11. Leontyne Price - "Tosca è un buon falco!" - Act 2, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
12. Leontyne Price - "Ha più forte sapore…Spoletta è giunto" - Act 2, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
13. Leontyne Price - "O galantuomo, come andò la caccia?" - Act 2, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
14. Leontyne Price - "Ov'è Angelotti? … Ed or fra noi parliam" - Act 2, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
15. Leontyne Price - "Sciarrone: che dice il cavalier?" - Act 2, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
16. Leontyne Price - "Orsù, Tosca, parlate…Mario, consenti ch'io parli?" - Act 2, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
17. Leontyne Price - "Floria…Amore…" - Act 2, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
18. Leontyne Price - "Vittoria! Vittoria!" - Act 2, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
19. Leontyne Price - "Quanto? Quanto? Il prezzo!" - Act 2, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
20. Leontyne Price - "Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore" - Act 2, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
21. Leontyne Price - "Chi è là?" - Act 2, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
22. Leontyne Price - "Lo tenni la promessa…E qual via scegliete?…Tosca, finalmente mia!" - Act 2, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
23. Leontyne Price - Prelude: "Io de' sospiri" - Act 3, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
24. Leontyne Price - Introduzione all'aria … E lucevan le stelle - Act 3, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
25. Leontyne Price - "E lucevan le stelle" - Act 3, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
26. Leontyne Price - "Franchigia a Floria Tosca" - Act 3, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
27. Leontyne Price - "O dolci mani! … L'ora! Son pronto!" - Act 3, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
28. Leontyne Price - "Come è lunga l'attesa!" - Act 3, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)
29. Leontyne Price - "Presto, su! Mario!" - Act 3, Tosca (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)



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