Leontyne Price sings "Tacea la notte placida"

[@meinfb]

In an interview she admitted that she loved her own voice, that sometimes the sound was so beautiful that it brought tears to her eyes. Leontyne, we felt the same.

[@3uHo4ka]

This is somehow strange.

[@IsraelLeviHernandez]

carl spelvin hahaha

[@victoriasuarez5644]

carl spelvin que potente voz waoooooooooo hermosa nítida clara que agudos dramática armoniosa de las mejores

[@bolder2009]

Зиночка I don't think so. Its not uncommon for singers to be moved to tears after listening to recordings of their performances.

[@davidallen508]

She probably meant that she was grateful to God for the wonderful vocal instrument she had been born with.I met her in S.F. at an autograph signing and was overwhelmed with her incredible charm ; a beautiful person inside and out.I am grateful to have met her.

[@stephanieskyes5777]

I'm speechless she is phenomenal

[@Eiswirth1]

The consistency of the vibrato and the absolute tonal beauty of her voice are stunning. She was one of a kind.

[@burnellbrowne4303]

MISS PRICE STILL TEACHES AT JUILLIARD! LOVE HER 80 - PLUS DIVA

[@liedersanger1]

Burnell Browne No she doesn’t teach at Juilliard, nor did she ever. She lives in retirement in Maryland.

[@Trinite33]

Exactly right! It is her vibrato that is so elemental to the overall beauty of her voice. Add to that her matchless timbre, and there is ample reason to just swoon.

[@yahualico2007]

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[@trilobit4]

@@Trinite33 they say that she can sing without the usage of vibrato. But why she should do this, it is so beautiful with vibrato.

[@christinec.6685]

Good Lord, the overtones on her O vowel are mind blowing m. What a gift to humanity.

[@mca1218]

Not only is the artist amazing, the quality of this 1963 "Bell Telephone Hour" tape is amazing. Thank God for these television broadcasts.

[@LaCheleWallace]

I just lose it when she soars up to the top end of her soprano. This is so pretty, Miss Price.

[@mr.rupertdavis3813]

An excellent example of what going to the Metropolitan Opera in the good old days was all about.

[@piperlapap]

The new Met is since a long time only a musty relic of bygone great times. I prefer the opera houses of Munich, Salzburg, Vienna , Milan and LA/San Francisco.

[@emilioasti3212]

9l

[@bjornhegner6947]

Costume, decorations... 😂

[@breannaelycesinclaire]

This performance always gagged me. SHE IS A GODDESS! She really elevates your ears to the highest levels of ecstasy!

[@ramongerman6440]

For me she is the best opera singer

[@Olgaalwina]

Eine der besten Soprane vor geraumer Zeit, Bewunderung!!!

[@sergiovarela8030]

... A Impressionante , Titanica , e Belíssima Voz , de Leontine Price !!!!!!! .... Eternamente !!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@annpetty9209]

Amazing!!! Ann Petty

[@MrStpendouslvforjo]

Truly ...one of the very GREATEST of the great!

[@michaelhughes8896]

There is an interview with Renee Fleming on You Tube and she rates LP the greatest of singers. In fact LP and she met when RF was very young. When I toured Lincoln Center in October 2013, they pointed out that LP has received the longest ovation ever at the Met-- --45+ minutes! Yes, one of the greatest!

[@Mennismervice]

Michael Hughes I could care less of what Renee' Fleming thinks of Leontyne.

[@piperlapap]

Leontyne sings very good like many other sopranos. I don't know however any other soprano with a beautiful velvety voice like Renée when she is singing this aria.

[@charlesrhodes1358]

How much less?

[@liedersanger1]

@@michaelhughes8896 Renée Fleming did NOT say Leontyne Price was “the greatest of singers,” as you put it. She said, “There’s no more beautiful voice”. (See Fleming’s interview on KZbin for the NEA Opera Awards,)

[@Tenorbravo]

Beautiful voice, beautifull stage presence and a very secure technique. Magnifique interprepation of " "Tacea la notte placida" . Verdi is very proud of Ms.Price.

[@elijahbryant7665]

The greatest Leonora there ever was...absolutely stunning

[@adamimp6728]

I have listened to her amazing voice my entire life! Absolutely incredible!

[@AmaniCFSoprano]

Queen Leontyne! This was just phenomenal!

[@mesterferenc2688]

This is unique. I fell in love with her Leonore listenig to Karajan s recording.

[@larespo1]

She is just tooooooooo good!!!!

[@oliviaplesan6110]

She is really gorgeous !!!

[@Mennismervice]

Can every one please stop mentioning Fleming on Leontyne videos; Fleming is a lyric and mimics dramatic roles, while Price is a spinto and these pieces are her prime role. So, please stop comparing them.

[@theartfulme1898]

I agree to an extent: talking about someone else in a singer's video is surely annoying. But Price herself said she wasn't a pure spinto, but rather a lirico spinto (as she put it, 'a juicy lyric').

[@piperlapap]

A spinto-sopran is in principle both a lyric AND a dramatic sopran with a certain reserve of potential power in her voice. Ultimately, it is crucial to what the audience likes better. I’m sure that in a direct comparison, the listeners would vote for Renée.

[@1belcantofan]

"Spinto" comes from the Italian verb "spingere" - to push...literally a more lyrical voices that CAN push towards the dramatic side. The whole term IS lyrico-spinto...there isn't a separate just "spinto" voice. Leontyne Price was a lyrico-spinto, which made her ideal to carry off MANY of the roles of Giuseppe Verdi. While she is simply stunning in this role, even she struggles ever so slightly in the VERY brutal Act IV of this wonderful opera-when those more dramatic leanings are pushed to their outer reaches when she has to complete the marathon of "D'amor sull'ali rosee, the Miserere, the caballetta "Tu vedrai", followed by the duet with the Baritone, and then the final prison scene. This is something that a voice like Fleming's was simply not designed to handle...along with a few other recent singers who have pushed their voices unnaturally into this repertoire. Price was self-deprecating when she referred to herself as "just a lyric" or what not...she certainly was not "just" a lyric.

[@ozielich]

@@piperlapap In a direct comparison, or indirect, or twice removed indirect comparison between Leontyne and Renée, people would definitely not vote for Flemming.

[@chiedu90069]

Agreed. They don't even sing the same rep. And mentioning Fleming here is truly bizarre since Fleming never sang Leonora onstage professionally and Price sang the role unforgettably for 2 decades!

[@trilobit4]

I wrote it under many of her videos. She got me, directly causing my love for the opera. I heard her almost forty years ago singing "Tacea la Notte Placida" on the LP record - Karajan. I had no idea about opera at that time. Her voice spilled around me going directly to my heart. Only she can sing it like this. "My God, she is amazing. Who is she?". Leontyne Price. What to add? Simply a woman! You meet her and fall in love... to her voice in this case. Who cares about details.

[@andrejungels6255]

Madame quel plaisir de vous retrouver sur you tube (thanks for thé people posting this). I saw you so many Times specialy at the Met When i was leving in new York. I was there for your last parformance of Aïda. Your are always in my hart and i remember the number of Times i meet you in greenwich village where you and I leave. With many many songs of love from Paris. Alain

[@Angela-vl8yw]

Almost too extraordinary for words

[@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930]

Maravillosa ""Aria"" y voz.!!

[@gaborpeterkovacs-zr4gh]

Fantastic

[@gowanhewlett745]

Indeed.....AND the superb technique .

[@romearomeo]

Di soprani così purtroppo oggi non ce ne sono più! E la voce più bella che io abbia mai sentito! Leontyne per me sei la più grande!

[@iltanghero]

+Anna-Maria Locher concordo; la forza vocale di questa artista è strabiliante

[@romearomeo]

Eh...si...é proprio così....sono una grandissima fan di lei.

[@liedersanger1]

Romea Romeo. Hai buon gusto! Et sono compmetamente daccordo.

[@RaulRodriguez-ky5pi]

You are an angel. Period!

[@JJoeisCooking]

Greatist Verdi soprano of the last half of the 20th century. Always breathtakinly beautiful.

[@mascagniful]

JoeisCooking -In your opinion.....

[@shayanmardanbeigi2697]

Well I would put one exception: Maria Callas, other than that I have to agree

[@SuperBrucen]

The best Leonora ever!

[@jonasmooka5124]

I can't get enough of this heavenly voice 😍

[@vanmusician]

I read somewhere that Italians loved her Verdi singing because it had a hint of Gospel. I heard her sing several recitals here in Vancouver. She would sing pretty much the entire programme in a smaller 'lieder' voice, then as a final encore paste us to our seats with a colossal 'Butterfly's Farewell'!

[@valydale]

Wished I'd known of her when I was younger. Would have loved seeing her in live performance.

[@vanmusician]

Her stage presence was rather stiff, but with that sound no one cared. However, one habit always annoyed me. She would bow the instant a song ended - not staying 'in the moment' for a few seconds as the applause started. It looked very mechanical.

[@valydale]

John Mitchell My voice teacher showed me the video footage of her singing for Jimmy Carter at the Whitehouse. She encored with Summertime and did exactly as you mentioned; bowed as the last note ended. My teacher jokes that the limo was waiting outside with her fuzzy slippers and a cup of tea.

[@norwegianforestcat7471]

V. Davis 😂 LOL

[@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930]

Un prodigio de voz.¡¡¡

[@Nic-gm5lk]

La voce più bella in assoluto fra i soprani....di tutti i tempi....

[@CarlaEugenia1955]

Nic 1 Dopo la Callas

[@rayarthey3706]

@@CarlaEugenia1955 con il dovuto rispetto, la voce della Callas non è mai stata considerata come una voce bella, ma come una voce particolare ed in grado di emozionare, gran versatilità... ma in quanto a bellezza timbrica la Price è sopra la Callas, detta da le stesse dive e divi.

[@e.g.8454]

Quindi secondo lei è migliore di Callas Zeani Gencer Tebaldi Kirsten Verrett Bumbry Arroyo De Los Angeles Caniglia Muzio Tetrazzini Cebotari Flagstad Cigna Bruna Rasa.. Ma x piacere..

[@nesherben-negev1345]

One of the world's greatest singers ever. Leontyne is one of my ultimate favourite singers.

[@elisabethsteltzlen]

Elle est DIVINE !!!!!!!!

[@stoica2010]

Happy Birthday,MRS:LEONTYNE PRICE !!!

[@piustwelfth]

In addition to her beautiful voice, she displays an impressive range. I like her chest notes. P.S.: This kind of entertainment would have zero chance of making it on broadcast TV in 2020. No sponsors and no audience. We've devolved as a society (as current events make clear).

[@GaryMitchellJr]

True and unfortunate. DEVOLVED.

[@ruby5959]

This is Whitney Houston’s cousin and I can tell by the vibrato.

[@liedersanger1]

@@ruby5959 No blood relationship.

[@kngiht84]

Has Anna Netrebko seen this yet?

[@Aaroncmusic]

Lewis Julien im screaming lol 😂😂

[@Andrey0776]

I think a lot of modern sopranos do not even know thаt name.

[@davidsimmons654]

Sick 😂😂😂😂

[@sarahaprincesa]

No

[@luisvillalobos3452]

Hahahhahahaha

[@tarachambers2596]

BEAUTIFUL!!!!

[@ChagoWilson]

Happy 95th Life Anniversary February 10, 2022 To Her Royal Highness, Leontyne Price Grandest Of Them All!

[@EudoraPrice]

The greatest!! Love her!

[@lucianogualtieri6721]

Che piacere sentirla.

[@iammarcnixon]

I love this more each time I watch

[@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930]

Esplendida voz ..¡¡ Un aria maravillosa..¡¡

[@Altonahh10]

Dear Fleming fans, please listen to THIS. That's how a Leonora must sound. No mannerisms, "just" expression, warmth and technique. Maybe Price really was the best Verdi soprano we have on records. What a joy to listen to her flexibility and effortless approach.

[@robinhendrix66]

I completely agree. Today's singers regale themselves in affectations, mannerisms, and the organ pedal effect, so much so that they reduce the pleasure of hearing frank and honest presentations of this great music. It's so true, Verdi' music is enough. Léontine Price knew this.

[@Mennismervice]

Altonahh10 Fleming is a Lyric, Leontyne is a spinto; there is no "maybe" about her singing.

[@raarnoldra]

Altonahh10 Renee Flemming NEVER sang Leonora on stage, only the aria. It was on her "Age of the Diva" of album and she only sang the aria a few times in galas and in concerts.

[@raarnoldra]

Robin Hendrix Leontyne Price has lots of mannered singing and scooping up to pitches in MANY of her recordings. Her recording of Pace Mio Dio, on her "Artist of the Century Compilation", comes to mind.

[@funman8430]

Madame Leontyne Price is the only Diva that that could bring Verdi's "Aida" to life!!! She gave God all the glory for her voice and in return he blessed her with angelic voice that has not been heard since her retirement from the MET!!!

[@rosalieciardullo3150]

Breathtaking.

[@2011nafissa]

how beautiful!!

[@williammcenaney1331]

I normally ignore "Greatest Hits" CDs. But when my friend Hermina gave me a copy of "Verdi's Greatest Hits" including this aria, Miss Price's superb singing thrilled me. To my ears, it sounded even better than this performance. If you're like me, you sometimes want to cheer when a CD or DVD thrills you. If you ven't heard her Aida with Jon Vickers, Delora Zajik, try the one where Solti conducts. You'll love her Ritorna vincitor. She's a wonderful Tosca, too, on an RCA recording with Milnes as Scarpia.

[@chopin1949]

not Delora Zajick, who wasn't even singing at the time, but Rita Gorr.

[@sandraoberoi]

Brilliant singing. Such a precious voice!

[@amanasro]

🌺🌺🌺🌹🌹🌹❤❤❤🌷🌷🌷🌺🌺🌺🌈🌈🌈🎵🎵🎵🎼🎼🎼🎶🎶🎶❤❤❤She was simply the BEST at what she did.

[@joylynne8]

Beautiful!

[@tanyadixon7980]

A masterclass in Verdi!

[@andrealupini6769]

Voce straordinaria piena di chiaroscuri luminosa e lunare al tempo stesso! L'articolazione verbale é un pochino faticosa in tuttal'aria e specificatamente nella cabaletta ma ad una voce così sontuosa si deve perdonare qualche piccolo difetto di pronuncia ed é poi talmente in ruolo... una delle leonore più belle che si possono ascoltare! Da brividi l'edizione live del 62 con Corelli!

[@ТамараАнисенкова-н6ш]

Bravissima, mille grazie!

[@nadiawart]

realmente bello

[@amanasro]

Simply BRILLIANT!!!🌹🌹🌺🌺💐💐🎼🎼🎵🎵

[@puppi1974]

OMG wawwww brava :)

[@rooitenen]

True perfection!

[@davidsongarrett8087]

Miss Price owns this role❤️❤️❤️

[@Salomes7Veils]

Wonderful. :)

[@fredojoaquim4764]

Lovely and poetic cavatina.

[@nigelo6258]

5.15, what a delight to the ears and senses. This lady possesses phenomenal talent! What a blessing she is to the world of opera!

[@maurippa]

wonderful...

[@16thCenturyArt]

Amazing

[@raigekimaru]

I like her mezzo-esque color.

[@scottjohnson9873]

Leontyne Price in her middle and late vocal career had the luck to have had a voice teacher who helped her to refine her instrument. She has complete vocal control from bottom to top. Her breathing is never faulty nor is the movement from one register to another. She also in later vocal life was able to rid, what a voice teacher once characterized as "the negroid clutch", that is forcing the vocal chorda instead of letting them vibrate with the passage of the breath. Smoothe vocal line depends on letting the breath flow freely over the vocal chords at all times, even when dramatic gutteral emphasis is called for. Congratulations Leontyne Price. You reached the top of your vocal class and a great career. We love you. I can say the same for the late Shirley Verette, a friend and colleague.

[@liedersanger1]

She had only one voice teacher from 1948 to 1973. Florence Page Kimball.

[@MichelaRomaniello]

Brividi...

[@paoloromeo899]

Una grande Leonora

[@panikrystyna1]

Ta barwa głosu czaruje...💐💐💐

[@tysamiller5660]

literally breathtaking! Bravo

[@PerseodiMai]

wonderful voce, perfectible diction

[@beachfanatic2010]

A great soprano with dramatic coloratura potential!

[@Mennismervice]

chosentenore She did not just have "potential," she WAS the potential.

[@theartfulme1898]

Her coloratura was kind of lazy and underdeveloped. She could have been great in it if she had studied more. However, she had one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard, as well as the most natural high register ever (along with Joan Sutherland).

[@beachfanatic2010]

You do not have to tell me what Leontyne was, is or will be. I know everything about her career, recordings or voice. First of all, this role as much as people love to say is it is a "Spinto role" it is NOT...this role is the same type of voice it is required for Traviata = DRAMATIC SOPRANO WITH NATURAL COLORATURA. Is not that Leontyne had a "lazy" coloratura is more that she did not have any coloratura whatsoever. And Leonora is design for a dramatico coloratura throat. Understood? Thank you.

[@liedersanger1]

The Artful Me I agree with YOU, not the schoolmarm here. And I adore Leontyne.

[@lascosasporsunombreclaroyr7860]

Vecina de la perfección vocal

[@truckcitytv]

I'm Proud to be from Laurel MS

[@ttchang9]

honestly beautiful!

[@wTrevorh]

That's a beautiful costume coupled with a marvellous voice!

[@nigelo6258]

The lagato at 5.14 is divine! Ah! what beautiful singing, what a perfect Leonora!

[@venerarusso3774]

Bravissima

[@gongli]

Thanks!

[@vepkhia]

გენიალურად მღერის!

[@jonasmooka5124]

How come I'm only seeing this now 🤩🤩

[@johnpickford4222]

Er, ah, you weren’t watching, didn’t know it was there or didn’t care.

[@albertodiaz1928]

The best

[@НатальяБадеева-о8ъ]

Великолепно

[@dmitriguerriero5879]

The best spinto imho

[@anastassiamarr5876]

oh my those chest tones, Im in love.

[@MrInterestingthings]

Singers on the level of Leontyne are such perfectionists they are seldom happy with even teir best efforts . Im a musician and I know she never nor ever had the lack of grace to say that in public . Who are these lonely know nothing types who get on internet and say yahoo foolishness like their Rump in the WhiteHouse . Shame to make lies for those who ve never ever experienced a moment of creativity in their lives !

[@MrSwifts31]

Undoubtedly one of the greatest sopranos of the 20th Century and without doubt the GREATEST of all Verdi sopranos,without compare.

[@johngarner3]

oh God !!!!!!!!

[@publicclammer]

In truth, I had almost forgotten how magoificent she was!

[@publicclammer]

Yeah - and I couldn't seem to spell magnificent! (age is creeping up onme!)

[@alexandroalvarez2464]

Mike Horton ...I have not forgotten her at all. Always return to her recordings to reminded me of what standards should be.

[@garydavidderby]

I DISCOVERED HER IN 1958

[@johnpickford4222]

Where? What was she doing? She was in a State Department sponsored tour of PORGY AND BESS before 1958 and was getting experience in a number of opera companies at that time.

[@Greg07623]

What a wonderful video. It must from the early to mid sixties?

[@albertodiaz684]

Very good

[@Dr.DivaMa]

Best of the rest!

[@TreblesBasses]

Who can touch this woman?!

[@Nidoamor]

She is the best in history !

[@scottjohnson9873]

Yes, her teacher's name was Florence page Kimbal in 1960 and for many years thereafter.

[@liedersanger1]

1948-1973

[@ТамерланИрон-н7о]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@ChicagoBandHead]

whats that note at the end a B flat?

[@liedersanger1]

ChicagoMarchingBands An A.

[@drjeffreymahood380]

An Archangel singing the Second Coming will sound like this.

[@tysamiller5660]

Dr Jeffrey Mahood my sentiments exactly