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Leontyne Price. This photograph was used on the cover of the 1981 album Leontyne Price Sings Verdi.

The discography of Leontyne Price, an American soprano, consists of studio albums; complete opera recordings; recordings of symphonic and choral works such as oratorios and masses; and live concert, recital, and opera recordings.[1] Her recordings have won a total of thirteen Grammy Awards, and she has been nominated for a Grammy Award twenty-five times. In addition to her competitive Grammy wins, Price was the recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at the 31st Annual Grammy Awards in 1989.

Price's professional recording career began in 1955 when she recorded Samuel Barber's song cycle Hermit Songs for Columbia Records. Price is closely associated with Barber and his music, and several recordings of her singing his compositions have been made; many of them written specifically for her. On the opera stage and on record she is closely associated with the operas of Verdi, Puccini, and Mozart. Her final studio opera recording was released in 1979, and her final live opera recording was made in 1985 when she made her farewell performance as Aida on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera (Met). Her last recording was of the song "America the Beautiful which was released by RCA in 1992 on the album A Salute to American Music. Price is also highly regarded for the Primma Donna collection; a series of five albums of opera arias released between 1966 and 1980 that encompass a wide range of songs which she sang for this collection but mostly did not perform on the opera stage.

Overview

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First recording and association with Samuel Barber

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Leontyne Price is considered the first African-American soprano to receive international acclaim.[2] She made her first professional recording in 1955 with Columbia Records for its "Modern American Music Series"; performing Barber's Hermit Songs with the composer at the piano[3] This song cycle was written for Price, and the work was given its first performance by her at the Library of Congress two years earlier.[4][5] The premiere on October 30, 1953 was privately recorded, and later released on disc in 2004 by Bridge Records; making it the earliest commercially available recording of Price's singing voice.[6]

Price frequently performed Barber's music in concerts and recitals. Live recordings of some of these performances given in 1953 and 1968 were compiled into the compilation album Leontyne Price Sings Barber (1994, RCA).[7] She also won a Grammy Award for the 1969 RCA album Samuel Barber: Two Scenes From Antony And Cleopatra / Knoxville: Summer of 1915.[8][9] The concert suite Two Scenes from "Anthony and Cleopatra" was crafted from two arias Barber wrote specifically for Price's voice in the opera Antony and Cleopatra.[10] Price created the role of Cleopatra in the world premiere of this opera which was notably commissioned and performed for the grand opening of the newly built Metropolitan Opera House on September 16, 1966.[11]

NBC Tosca recording, Porgy and Bess, and RCA contract

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Price in Porgy and Bess in 1953

The earliest recording of Price performing in an opera comes from the year 1955 when she performed the title role in Puccini's Tosca in a live televised broadcast for the NBC Opera Theatre on January 23, 1955.[12] This performance not only marked Price's grand opera debut, but was also the first instance of a black singer starring in an opera on television.[13] It is considered a significant moment in the breaking of the color barrier during the Civil Rights Movement as Price achieved this at a time when black singers were largely barred from the opera stage in the United States due to racial prejudice.[12] While a complete version of this opera recording is only available in archives,[14] excerpts from the recording were released on CD by Legato Classics in 1998.[15]

The success of the NBC Tosca led to Price being offered a contract with the San Francisco Opera; her first with an American opera company.[16] Prior to this Price had starred as Bess in the third revival of Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess from 1952-1954; a work now regarded as an opera masterwork but then viewed more as a musical.[17] While this production was not recorded, Price later performed excerpts from this opera with her husband William Warfield as Porgy for the Grammy Award winning 1963 RCA record Great Scenes From Gershwin's Porgy And Bess.[18] When she made her San Francisco debut in 1957 as Madame Lidoine in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites the performance was attended by RCA's director Alan Kayes.[19] Kayes was impressed and offered her contract with RCA Victor Red Seal[19] which she signed in 1958.[20]

Recording legacy with mostly RCA

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The majority of Price's recording output was made with RCA with whom she recorded music throughout her career.[21][19] Many of her RCA records have also been re-released by BMG Records.[22] Her first recording as a contract singer under RCA was a 1959 album of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 made with conductor Charles Munch, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the chorus of the New England Conservatory.[23] Price was celebrated for her performances in Symphony No. 9 with orchestras around the world, and the work was described as her "calling card" on the international stage.[17] Another concert work with which she was closely associated was Verdi's Requiem which she recorded twice for RCA studio albums; a 1960 record with Fritz Reiner and the Vienna Philharmonic[24] and a 1977 album with Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.[25]

Price's first solo album, the 1959 record A Program Of Song, won the 1961 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist.[26][27] She later had a record winning streak in this category; winning this award consecutively for five years from 1964 through 1968 (honoring the years 1963-1967).[28] By the end of her recording career, Price had won a total of thirteen Grammy Awards, and been nominated for a Grammy Award twenty-five times.[29] In 1989 she was the recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at the 31st Annual Grammy Awards in 1989.[30]

On the opera stage, Price is celebrated for becoming the first black singer to have a sustained career at the Met.[31] Several live recordings of her performances from Met stage have been released by Sony Records.[32] In Europe, Price had a productive relationship with conductor Herbert von Karajan[33] with whom she recorded for RCA,[34] Deutsche Grammophon,[35] and Decca Records.[34][36] Karajan notably conducted Price in her European debut as Verdi's Aida at the Vienna State Opera in 1958. She repeated that role soon after in highly acclaimed performances at the Royal Opera House in London and La Scala in Milan among other European theaters.[37] Considered "the Aida" of her generation,[37][38] Price made two different Grammy Award winning recordings of this opera for RCA.[39]

Price also achieved acclaim internationally in several other operas by Verdi, including Il trovatore, La forza del destino, and Un ballo in maschera;[37] all of which she recorded for RCA.[40] Besides Verdi, Price was frequently heard on the stage in the operas of Puccini and Mozart[37] and recorded multiple operas by both composers for RCA.[40] Her 1961 Grammy winning self titled album Leontyne Price (also known as Operatic Arias and often called "the blue album") was dedicated to the music of Verdi and Puccini,[41][1][42] and she won another Grammy Award for her 1973 album Puccini Heroines.[43] With tenor Plácido Domingo she recorded the Grammy nominated album Verdi & Puccini Duets (1975),[44] and her 1981 album Leontyne Price Sings Verdi, recorded with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Zubin Mehta, won a Grammy in 1983.[45]

In 1966 RCA released the album Leontyne Price, Prima Donna: Great Soprano Arias from Purcell to Barber which featured Price singing operatic repertoire that she mainly never performed on the stage from a broad range of composers and musical periods.[46][47] She released four more volumes or albums in this series in the years 1967,[48] 1970,[49] 1978,[50] and 1980.[51] A box set of these works, Leontyne Price: A Prima Donna Collection, was first released on tape in 1983,[52] and then later on CD in 1992.[53] The New York Times Anthony Tommasini described the overall reception of the Primma Donna collection as "critically hailed" in his assessment of Price's recording career.[19] Consisting of 47 opera arias across five discs, opera historian Clyde T. McCants stated that "the Prima Donna Collection is by all accounts the most comprehensive demonstration of the art of the soprano that has ever been committed to disc by a single artist."[46]

Final recordings

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Price's final complete studio opera recording was the role of Ariadne in Ariadne auf Naxos by R. Strauss which was released by RCA in 1977.[54] Live recordings of Price continued until the very end of her opera career; including her farewell performance as Aida at the Metropolitan Opera in 1985 which was filmed for television broadcast on PBS.[55] After retiring from the opera stage, Price continued to work as a recitalist until giving her final recital in 1998.[56] Among her later recordings was a 1985 recital she gave for the grand opening of the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts,[57] and a live concert at Avery Fisher Hall, A Salute to American Music, given on November 10, 1991, which featured Price singing "America the Beautiful" as well as introducing songs performed by other singers.[58]

Price is also closely associated with another patriotic song, "God Bless America", which she famously sang a cappella before the United States Congress in 1981 with altered lyrics aimed at compelling the US government to not cut funding for the arts.[59] She later recorded the song with its original words as both a single and a track on her Grammy nominated 1982 patriotic album God Bless America.[60] She came out of retirement to perform the song at Carnegie Hall in a special concert honoring the victims of the September 11 attacks which was given on September 30, 2001 just nineteen days after the tragedy.[61][62]

Studio albums

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Title Year Label Notes References
Hermit Songs / String Quartet No. 1 1955 Columbia Masterworks This was an album featuring the music of Samuel Barber. Price performed the song cycle Hermit Songs with Barber at the piano. The album also included Barber's String Quartet No. 1 played by the Juilliard String Quartet. This was Price's first professional recording. [63]
A Program Of Song 1959 RCA Victor Red Seal This recording was Price's first album as a solo artist, and was released in December 1959. A recital of German lieder and French chanson, it featured David Garvey as her accompanist. It won the 1961 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist. Price was also nominated that year for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist which she lost to Bob Newhart. [26][27][64]
Leontyne Price
(also known as Operatic Arias) 		1961 RCA Victor Red Seal Price's self titled album Leontyne Price, often referred to as "the blue album", is also known as Operatic Arias. Contains arias from the operas Aida, Il trovatore, Madama Butterfly, La Rondine, Tosca, and Turandot. It was nominated for the 1962 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist (with or without orchestra). In 1998 RCA Living Stereo/BMG released a remastered version of the album under the title Leontyne Price: Verdi & Puccini Arias. [41][1][42][65][66]
A Christmas Offering

(also known as Christmas with Leontyne Price)

1961 London Stereo A Christmas album with Price singing mainly Christmas hymns with conductor Herbert von Karajan and the Vienna Philharmonic. It was released in the United States under the title A Christmas Offering by London Stereo. In the United Kingdom it was released by Decca Records under the title Christmas with Leontyne Price. The album has been reissued multiple time; most recently in a remastered version by Decca in 2004. [67][68][69]
Leontyne Price – Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 1962 RCA Victor Red Seal A recording of fourteen African American spirituals made with a studio orchestra conducted by Leonard De Paur. [70][71][72]
Great Scenes From Gershwin's Porgy And Bess 1963 RCA Victor Red Seal Excerpts of the opera Porgy and Bess. Price sang the role of Bess with her husband William Warfield as Porgy. Also included were the original Sportin' Life, John W. Bubbles, and McHenry Boatwright. It won the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist (with or without orchestra). A remastered version was released by BMG in 1999. [18][73][74][75]
Salome: Dance of the Seven Veils/ Interlude and Final Scene
The Egyptian Helen : Awakening Scene 		1965 RCA Victor Excerpts from the operas Salome and Die ägyptische Helena by Richard Strauss. Sung with Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. This recording won the 1966 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. It was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Classical Album of the Year. [76][77]
Leontyne Price / My Favorite Hymns 1966 RCA Victor Red Seal Twelve hymns performed with organist George Decker and the Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys of New York. The chorus was led by conductor William Self who was organist and choirmaster at Saint Thomas Church in Manhattan. [78][79]
Leontyne Price, Prima Donna: Great Soprano Arias from Purcell to Barber 1966 RCA Victor Red Seal Studio recording of ten opera arias performed with the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra under the baton of conductor Francesco Molinari-Pradelli. This recording won the 1967 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance (with or without orchestra). [80][81][82]
Leontyne Price, Prima Donna/ Volume 2: Great Soprano Arias From Handel To Puccini 1967 RCA Victor Red Seal Another studio recording performed with Francesco Molinari-Pradelli and RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra. This album contains nine opera arias. A compilation of both Volume 1 and Volume 2 of Prima Donna was also released in 1967. This recording won the 1968 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. [83][84][85]
Right As The Rain: Leontyne Price / André Previn 1967 RCA Victor Red Seal An album of songs from Broadway musicals sung by Price with André Previn conducting the André Previn Orchestra. Previn also arranged and orchestrated the songs and played piano on the album. [86][87]
Samuel Barber: Two Scenes From Antony And Cleopatra / Knoxville: Summer of 1915 1969 RCA Victor Red Seal Thomas Schippers conducts the New Philharmonia Orchestra with Price singing Samuel Barber's Two Scenes From Antony And Cleopatra and Knoxville: Summer of 1915. This recording won the 1970 Grammy Award for Best Vocal Soloist Performance, Classical. [88][9]
Leontyne Price Sings Mozart Operatic And Concert Arias 1969 RCA Victor Red Seal Price sings a total of seven arias, both opera and concert, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Peter Herman Adler conducts the New Philharmonia Orchestra. [89][90]
Leontyne Price, Prima Donna/ Volume 3: Great Soprano Arias From Gluck To Poulenc 1970 RCA Victor Red Seal Sir Edward Downes conducts Price and the London Symphony Orchestra in fifteen opera arias. This recording was nominated for the 1971 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. [91][92]
Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free 1971 RCA Victor Red Seal Price's second album of African American spirituals. These are performed with the Rust College Choir under the direction of Lassaye Van Buren Holmes. Proceeds for this album were given to fund scholarships to Rust College. [93][94]
Leontyne Price Sings Robert Schumann 1971 RCA Victor Red Seal Pianist David Garvey accompanies Price in album dedicated entirely to the lieder of Robert Schumann. This recording won the 1972 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. [95][96]
5 Great Operatic Scenes 1972 RCA Victor Red Seal Price sings excerpts from La traviata, Eugene Onegin, Don Carlo, Ariadne auf Naxos, and Fidelio with the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Fausto Cleva. This recording was nominated for the 1973 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. [97][98]
Leontyne Price – Puccini Heroines 1973 RCA Victor Red Seal This album was recorded in London in 1972 and released by RCA in 1973. Price sings arias for several operas by Giacomo Puccini; including La bohème, Le Villi, Edgar, Manon Lescaut, Tosca, La Rondine, Madama Butterfly, and La fanciulla del West. Edward Downes conducts the New Philharmonia Orchestra. It won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. [99][43]
Leontyne Price Sings Richard Strauss 1974 RCA Victor Red Seal Price performs Four Last Songs, and excerpts from Die Frau ohne Schatten, Der Rosenkavalier, and Guntram with the New Philharmonia Orchestra and conductor Erich Leinsdorf. It won the 1975 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. [100][101]
Weihnachtskonzert 1974 Decca Records Price performs music by Giovanni Gabrieli, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with the Vienna Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan. [102]
Verdi & Puccini Duets 1975 RCA Victor Red Seal Nello Santi conducts the New Philharmonia Orchestra in an album of opera duets by composers Verdi and Puccini which are sung by Price and tenor Plácido Domingo. It was nominated for the 1976 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. [44][103]
Leontyne Price: Portrait 1976 RCA Francesco Molinari-Pradelli conducts the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra and Edward Downes the London Symphony Orchestra in this album of 19 opera arias. [104]
Leontyne Price, Prima Donna/ Volume 4: Great Soprano Arias From Mozart To Menotti 1978 RCA Victor Red Seal Price sings eleven opera arias with the New Philharmonia Orchestra led by Nello Santi. [105][106]
Lieder by Schubert and Richard Strauss 1979 Angel Records Price is accompanied by pianist David Garvey in an album of German lieder by Franz Schubert and Richard Strauss. It was nominated for the 1980 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. [107][1]
Leontyne Price, Prima Donna/ Volume 5: Great Soprano Arias From Handel To Britten 1980 RCA Victor Red Seal Henry Lewis conducts Price and the New Philharmonia Orchestra in seven opera arias. It won the 1981 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. [108][109]
Leontyne Price – Primadonna Assoluta 1980 Ullstein Musik Oliviero De Fabritiis conducts Price and the Orchestra Del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in an album of Verdi arias. [110]
Leontyne Price Sings Verdi 1981 London Records Price sings Verdi arias with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta. The recording won the 1983 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. [45][111]
God Bless America 1982 RCA Charles Gerhardt conducts Price and the National Philharmonic Orchestra in an album of predominantly American patriotic songs. The recording was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Inspirational Performance. [60]
Noël - Noël 1983 Decca Records Charles Dutoit leads Price and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in this album of Christmas music using arrangements by Arthur Harris. The recording was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Inspirational Performance. [112]

Selected compilation albums and collections

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Title Year Label Notes References
Leontyne Price – Verdi Heroines 1970 RCA Victor Red Seal A compilation album of opera arias by Giuseppe Verdi. Many of these were taken from earlier recordings released by RCA; including complete opera recordings. [113]
Heavy Hits Of Hope, Joy & Peace (Jesus Loves You) 1971 RCA Victor Red Seal A compilation album featuring spiritual music performed by Price, the Robert Shaw Chorale, the Norman Luboff Choir, and conductors Leopold Stokowski and Robert Shaw. [114]
Leontyne Price: A Prima Donna Collection 1983 RCA Victor Red Seal A compilation album of prior RCA recordings of Price singing opera arias. Later released on CD in 1996. [115][116]
The Great Voice Of Leontyne Price 1983 London Records A compilation album consisting of opera arias, concert music, and spirituals. [117]
Leontyne Price Sings Mozart 1992 RCA Victor Gold Seal / BMG A compilation album of Price singing opera arias and concert music by Mozart. Includes music recorded from 1965–1977. [118]
Leontyne Price: The Prima Donna Collection 1992 RCA Victor Gold Seal / BMG A compilation of the earlier four volumes of Leontyne Price, Prima Donna. [119]
Grandi Voci: Leontyne Price 1993 Decca Records A compilation of recordings Price made for Decca. [120][121]
Leontyne Price Sings Barber 1994 RCA Victor Gold Seal A compilation of recordings Price made with Samuel Barber in 1953 and 1968. [122]
The Essential Leontyne Price 1996 BMG Classics Encompasses a total of eleven discs of music spanning the breadth of Price's recording career. It was released in honor of Price's 70th birthday. [123][124]
Leontyne Price Sings Spirituals 1997 RCA Victor Red Seal A compilation of Price's two albums of spirituals. [125]
The Essential Leontyne Price: Spirituals, Hymns & Sacred Songs 1997 RCA/BMG Classics A compilation of Price's recordings of sacred music. [126]
Leontyne Price – The Ultimate Collection 1999 RCA Victor Red Seal A compilation of Price singing 28 opera arias across two CDs. [127]
Leontyne Price –Original Album Classics 2009 RCA Victor Red Seal/Sony Music A collection of several of Price's albums. [128]
Leontyne Price – The Complete Collection Of Operatic Recital Albums 2011 RCA Victor Red Seal/Sony Classical A collection of several of Price's albums which were remastered. [129]
Leontyne Price – The Complete Collection Of Song And Spiritual Albums 2012 RCA Victor Red Seal/Sony Classical Encompasses recordings of spirituals, lieder, songs, and concert vocal works made between 1954- 1991 across a 12 CD collection. [129]

Complete opera recordings

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Studio recordings

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Title Year Conductor and Orchestra Cast Label Notes References
Don Giovanni 1959 Erich Leinsdorf
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra 		Don Giovanni (Cesare Siepi)
Donna Anna (Birgit Nilsson)
Donna Elvira (Price)
Don Ottavio (Cesare Valletti)
Leperello (Fernando Corena)
Zerlina (Eugenia Ratti)
Masetto (Heinz Blankenburg)
 Decca Records Originally released in Europe by Decca in 1959. Released in the United States in 1960 by RCA Victor Red Seal. [130][131]
Il trovatore 1959 Arturo Basile
Rome Opera orchestra and chorus 		Manrico (Richard Tucker)
Leonora (Leontyne Price)
Azucena (Rosalind Elias)
Conte di Luna (Leonard Warren)
Ferrando (Giorgio Tozzi) 		RCA Victor Red Seal [132][133]
Aida 1962 Georg Solti
Rome Opera orchestra and chorus 		Aida (Price)
Radamès (Jon Vickers)
Amneris (Rita Gorr)
 Decca Records/RCA Victor Red Seal Winner of the 1963 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. This record was made through a collaboration between Decca and RCA. It used Decca's new recording technology, a Decca producer, and conductor Solti who was a Decca signed artist. However, the vocalists were all contracted under RCA. Depending on the market, the album may have been sold with the RCA Victor label or a Decca label. [134][135]
Tosca 1962 Herbert von Karajan
Vienna Philharmonic
Vienna State Opera chorus 		Tosca (Price)
Cavaradossi (Giuseppe Di Stefano)
Scarpia (Giuseppe Taddei) 		Decca Records/ RCA Red Seal Records Nominated for the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. [18][34]
Madama Butterfly 1962 Erich Leinsdorf
RCA Italiana Opera orchestra and chorus 		Cio-Cio-San (Price)
Pinkerton (Richard Tucker)
Sharpless (Philip Maero)
Suzuki (Rosalind Elias) 		RCA Victor Red Seal Winner of the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. Also nominated for the Grammy Award for Classical Album of the Year. [136][135]
Carmen 1964 Herbert von Karajan
Vienna Philharmonic
Vienna State Opera chorus 		Carmen (Price)
Don José (Franco Corelli)
Micaëla (Mirella Freni)
Escamillo (Robert Merrill) 		RCA Victor Red Seal Winner of the 1965 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. [137][135][138]
La forza del destino 1964 Thomas Schippers
RCA Italiana Orchestra & chorus 		Leonora (Price)
Alvaro (Richard Tucker)
Carlo (Robert Merrill)
Preziosilla (Shirley Verrett)
Fra Melitone (Ezio Flagello)
Padre Guardiano (Giorgio Tozzi) 		RCA Red Seal Records It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. [139][140]
Un ballo in maschera 1966 Erich Leinsdorf
RCA Italiana Opera orchestra and chorus 		Riccardo (Carlo Bergonzi)
Amelia (Price)
Renato (Robert Merrill)
Oscar (Reri Grist)
Ulrica (Shirley Verrett) 		RCA Victor Red Seal [140]
Così fan tutte 1967 Erich Leinsdorf
Philharmonia Orchestra
Ambrosian Singers 		Fiordiligi (Price)
Dorabella (Tatiana Troyanos)
Despina (Judith Raskin)
Ferrando (George Shirley)
Guglielmo (Sherrill Milnes)
Alfonso (Ezio Flagello) 		RCA Red Seal Winner of the 1969 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. [141][135]
Verdi: Ernani 1967 Thomas Schippers,
RCA Italiana Opera Chorus and Orchestra 		Ernani (Carlo Bergonzi)
Elvira (Price)
Don Carlo (Mario Sereni)
Silva (Ezio Flagello) 		RCA Red Seal Records [140]
Il trovatore 1969 Zubin Mehta
Philharmonia Orchestra
Ambrosian Singers 		Manrico (Plácido Domingo)
Leonora (Price)
Azucena (Fiorenza Cossotto)
Conte di Luna (Sherrill Milnes)
Ferrando (Bonaldo Giaiotti) 		RCA Red Seal Records Nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. [142][140][143]
Aida 1970 Erich Leinsdorf
London Symphony Orchestra
John Alldis choir 		Aida (Price)
Radamès (Plácido Domingo)
Amneris (Grace Bumbry)
Amonasro (Sherrill Milnes)
Ramfis (Ruggero Raimondi) 		RCA Red Seal Records Winner of the 1972 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. [144][135]
Il tabarro 1971 Erich Leinsdorf
New Philharmonia Orchestra 		Michele (Sherrill Milnes)
Giorgetta (Price)
Luigi (Plácido Domingo) 		RCA Red Seal Records Nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. [144][145][146][147]
Tosca 1972 Zubin Mehta
Philharmonia Orchestra
John Alldis Choir
Wandsworth School Boys' Choir 		Tosca (Price)
Cavaradossi (Plácido Domingo)
Scarpia (Sherrill Milnes) 		RCA Red Seal Records [135][148]
La forza del destino 1976 James Levine
London Symphony Orchestra
John Alldis Choir 		Leonora (Price)
Alvaro (Plácido Domingo)
Carlo (Sherrill Milnes)
Preziosilla (Fiorenza Cossotto)
Fra Melitone (Gabriel Bacquier)
Padre Guardiano (Bonaldo Giaiotti) 		RCA Red Seal Records [140]
Il trovatore 1977 Herbert von Karajan
Berlin Philharmonic
Deutsche Oper Berlin chorus 		Manrico (Franco Bonisolli)
Leonora (Price)
Azucena (Elena Obraztsova)
Conte di Luna (Piero Cappuccilli)
Ferrando (Ruggero Raimondi) 		EMI Classics [140][149]
Ariadne auf Naxos 1977 Georg Solti
London Philharmonic Orchestra 		Ariadne (Price)
Bacchus (René Kollo)
Composer (Tatiana Troyanos)
Zerbinetta (Edita Gruberova)
Music Master (Walter Berry) 		Decca Records [135]

Selected live recordings

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Title Year Conductor and Orchestra Cast Label Notes References
Puccini: Tosca 1955 Peter Hermann Adler
NBC Symphony Orchestra 		Tosca (Leontyne Price)
Cavaradossi (David Poleri)
Scarpia (Josh Wheeler) 		Legato Classics 1998 Excerpts from Price's historic grand opera debut with the NBC Opera Theatre on January 23, 1955

Also found on discs by House of Opera and Premiere Opera. 		[15]
Mozart: Don Giovanni 1960 Herbert von Karajan
Vienna Philharmonic
Chorus of the Vienna State Opera 		Don Giovanni (Eberhard Wächter)
Donna Anna (Leontyne Price)
Donna Elvira (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf)
Don Ottavio (Cesare Valletti)
Leperello (Walter Berry)
Zerlina (Graziella Sciutti)
Masetto (Rolando Panerai)
 Myto Records Recorded live at the Salzburg Festival. [150]
Puccini: Madama Butterfly 1961 Kurt Herbert Adler
San Francisco Opera orchestra and chorus 		Cio-Cio-San (Leontyne Price)
Pinkerton (Sándor Kónya)
Sharpless (Vladimir Ruždjak)
Suzuki (Mildred Miller) 		House of Opera Recorded live at the San Francisco Opera House on September 22, 1961 [151]
Puccini: Turandot 1961 Herbert von Karajan
Vienna Philharmonic
Chorus of the Vienna State Opera 		Turandot (Birgit Nilsson)
Calaf (Giuseppe di Stefano)
Liù (Leontyne Price)
Timur (Nicola Zaccaria) 		First released by HRE in 1984 Recorded live on June 22, 1961 [152][153]
Verdi: Il trovatore 1961 Fausto Cleva
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus 		Manrico (Franco Corelli),
Leonora (Leontyne Price)
Azucena (Irene Dalis)
Conte di Luna (Mario Serini)
Ferrando (William Wildermann) 		Myto Records Recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera House on February 4, 1961. [35]
Puccini: Tosca 1962 Kurt Adler
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus
 Tosca (Leontyne Price)
Cavaradossi (Franco Corelli)
Scarpia (Cornell MacNeil) 		Sony Records Recorded live on April 2, 1962 [154]
Verdi: Il trovatore 1962 Herbert von Karajan
Vienna Philharmonic
Vienna State Opera chorus 		Manrico (Franco Corelli),
Leonora (Leontyne Price)
Azucena (Giulietta Simionato)
Conte di Luna (Ettore Bastianini)
Ferrando (Nicola Zaccaria) 		Deutsche Grammophon Recorded live at the Salzburg Festival on July 31, 1962. [35]
Verdi: Ernani 1962 Thomas Schippers
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra 		Ernani (Carlo Bergonzi)
Elvira (Leontyne Price)
Don Carlo (Cornell MacNeil)
Silva (Giorgio Tozzi) 		Sony Records Recorded live on December 1, 1962 [155]
Verdi: Aida 1963 Lovro von Matačić
Vienna State Opera orchestra and chorus 		Aida (Leontyne Price)
Radamès (Dimiter Uzunov)
Amneris (Giulietta Simionato)
Amonasro (Ettore Bastianini)
Ramfis (Walter Kreppel) 		Electrecord Recorded live on June 3, 1963 [156]
Puccini: Il tabarro 1971 Nino Sanzogno
San Francisco Opera orchestra and chorus 		Michele (Gabriel Bacquier)
Giorgetta (Leontyne Price)
Luigi (Aldo Bottion) 		House of Opera Recorded live at the San Francisco Opera House on November 26, 1971. This was Price's first performance of this role. [147]
Puccini: Manon Lescaut 1974 Reynald Giovaninetti
San Francisco Opera orchestra and chorus
 Manon (Leontyne Price)
Des Grieux (Giorgio Merighi)
Lescaut (Julian Patrick) 		House of Opera Recorded live on September 9, 1974 [157]
Verdi: La forza del destino 1979 Kurt Herbert Adler
San Francisco Opera orchestra & chorus 		Leonora (Leontyne Price)
Alvaro (Veriano Luchetti)
Carlo (Guillermo Sarabia)
Preziosilla (Judith Forst)
Fra Melitone (Giuseppe Taddei)
Padre Guardiano (Martti Talvela)
David Cumberland (Marchese di Calatrava)
Curra (Gwendolyn Jones) 		Reel Tape Recorded live November 9, 1979 [158]
Verdi: La forza del destino 1984 James Levine
Metropolitan Opera orchestra & chorus
 Leonora (Leontyne Price)
Alvaro (Giuseppe Giacomini)
Carlo (Leo Nucci)
Preziosilla (Isola Jones)
Fra Melitone (Enrico Fissore)
Padre Guardiano (Bonaldo Giaiotti) 		SD video:
Met Opera on Demand 		Recorded live on March 24, 1984 [159][160]

Choral and symphonic

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Title Year Genre Musicians Label Notes References
The Ninth Symphony of Beethoven and Symphony No. 8 1959 choral symphony Boston Symphony Orchestra
Chorus of the New England Conservatory
Charles Munch (conductor)
Leontyne Price, soprano
Maureen Forrester, contralto
David Poleri, tenor
Giorgio Tozzi, bass 		RCA Victor Red Seal Recorded in December 1958, Price and the other singers were only heard in Symphony No. 9 as Symphony No. 8 is entirely instrumental. [161][162]
Verdi Requiem 1960 Requiem (funeral mass) Vienna Philharmonic
Choral Society of the Friends of Music, Vienna
Fritz Reiner (conductor)
Leontyne Price, soprano
Rosalind Elias, mezzo-soprano
Jussi Björling, tenor
Giorgio Tozzi, bass 		RCA Victor Red Seal [163]
El Amor Brujo / Les Nuits D'Été 1964 ballet / song cycle Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner 		RCA Victor This recording won the 1965 Grammy Award for Best Vocal Soloist Performance (with or without orchestra). [164][165]
Verdi Requiem 1977 Requiem (funeral mass) Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Choir
Georg Solti (conductor)
Margaret Hillis (chorus master)
Leontyne Price, soprano
Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano
Veriano Luchetti, tenor
José van Dam, bass 		RCA Victor Red Seal [166]
Missa solemnis 1981 (recorded 1959) solemn mass Vienna Philharmonic
Choral Society of the Friends of Music, Vienna
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
Leontyne Price, soprano
Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano
Nicolai Gedda, tenor
Nicola Zaccaria, bass 		Melodram Ludwig van Beethoven's Missa solemnis was recorded live at the Salzburg Festival on August 19, 1959. It was not released on disc until 1981. [167]
Live Recordings of Outstanding Musicians: G. Verdi Requiem 1984 Requiem (funeral mass) La Scala Chorus and Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan, conductor
Leontyne Price, soprano
Fiorenza Cossotto, mezzos-soprano
Carlo Bergonzi, tenor
Nicolai Ghiaurov, bass 		Melodiya Verdi's Requiem was recorded live at the Bolshoi Theater, Moscow on September 23, 1964. It was later released on disc in Russia in 1984. [168]
Verdi Requiem 2001 Requiem (funeral mass) Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Milan
Herbert von Karajan, conductor
Leontyne Price, soprano
Fiorenza Cossotto, mezzos-soprano
Luciano Pavarotti, tenor
Nicolai Ghiaurov, bass 		Deutsche Grammophon Film of 1967 La Scala performance directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. Only officially released in 2001 on DVD. [169][170]


Selected live concert recordings

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Title Year Label Notes References
Leontyne Price at the Met 1976 Metropolitan Opera Guild An album of recordings made live at the Metropolitan Opera. Included are ten opera arias from ten different roles Price sang on the Met stage. [171]
Leontyne Price & Marilyn Horne in Concert at the Met 1983 RCA Victor Red Seal James Levine conducts the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in this live album of opera duets and arias sung by Price and Marilyn Horne at the Metropolitan Opera House. The recording won the 1984 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. [172]
Leontyne Price Live! (At The Historic Opening Of The Ordway Music Theatre) 1985 Pro Arte Pianist David Garvey accompanies Price in a live concert on January 1, 1985 that was given as the grand opening of the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. [173]
A Salute to American Music 1992 RCA Victor Red Seal Price is one of many performers on this recording of a live concert at Avery Fisher Hall given on November 10, 1991. Price performed "America the Beautiful" and also introduced many of the songs and arias throughout the concert. In addition to being recorded for CD, it was also filmed for television broadcast on PBS. [174]
Leontyne Price Rediscovered 2002 RCA Victor Red Seal / BMG Live recording of Price's recital at Carnegie Hall on February 28, 1965. [175]
Leontyne Price & Samuel Barber: Historic Performances 1938 & 1953 2004 Bridge Records, Inc. Live recordings of Price and Barber performing in recital together. The first concert if of the world premiere of Barber's Hermit Songs performed on October 30, 1953, at the Coolidge Auditorium, Library Of Congress, Washington, D.C. The second is a concert recorded on December 26, 1938, at Casimir Hall at the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [6]

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