Mary Violet Leontyne Price (born February 10, 1927) is an American opera singer (soprano). She was best known for her Verdi roles, above all "Aida", a role that she is said to have "owned" for almost thirty years. Her rise to international fame in the 1950s and 60s was a visible, and for many a symbolic, triumph over institutional racism. Price was a leading interpreter of the "lirico spinto" (Italian for "pushed lyric", … Wikipedia
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