Leontyne Price

Watching and listening to the Verdi Requiem (I did so again for the third time tonight…), my eye turned to the soprano, Leontyne Price (born in 1927). As an African-American opera singer of the segregated era, she must have done double or more to prove herself in the classical music scene. Price is the first black superstar at the Met, renowned for her interpretation of Verdi and Puccini.