It's 2024. It's her 97th Birthday. I've watched this countless times. I still blubber like an infant. What did we do to deserve this JEWEL OF A BEING??? NOTHING! She is The GRACE-GIFT of HEAVEN to us! 🎼🎶🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🎶
@@shells500tutubo Senza mamma bimbo tu sei morto. - you died without your mama my baby - Just typing those words brings tears to my eyes. It's impossible to remain dry eyed when you hear this aria. Oh that Puccini, he knew how to wring every last tear from your eyes.
The crowd goes absolutely crazy after her last note! Her expression at that moment is so sweet because she knows it is so good, but she also knows it comes from a place outside of herself that she reflects, and it is a celebration of beauty and wonder that is shared by her and the audience in honor of the music and of LIFE!!!! Ahh! Goodness!!!
I was there - I remember every note - meltingly beautiful. How lucky we were to have lived at a time of Price, Sutherland, Caballé...voices for eternity.
The one, the only, unique, stand-alone DIVA ever. I have loved her for six+ decades. I greatly admire her for never milking the audience. She doesn't need to. And she exhibits such class by acknowledging the orchestra and taking the hand of the Concert Master. Her entrances and exits are majestic, and we are in awe. Thank you, God, for giving us Leontyne Price.
I still remember Renée Fleming (another Opera great) saying that her mother spoke of Leontyne Price in hushed tones. When Fleming met Price when Fleming was still a kid, she said when Price sang every muscle on Price’s body seemed to relax. This is not the way most Opera singers are described.
There are many sopranos that sing this aria, but no soprano has come close to the perfection that Price delivers… past her prime, by the way!!! Brava La Price!!!
Wait---what do you mean, "past her prime"? I can't let that go by. This ageless voice was nothing ever than the very prime representative what the greatest opera singing should be. I was in the audience for her many live recitals over the years and there was never a trace of diminishment. No more conditional compliments!
@@jdawgchappellicious Let's be clear, every singer has their prime, this doesn't mean the voice or quality has diminished, but it does change. I am unashamedly a huge fan of Price, but her best singing years are from 1957-1973ish, she did her best recordings during this time. But her voice and ease of high notes stayed well into her 70's.
@@dantewalston2755 Interestingly, Ms. Price delivered this heart-piercing performance in March 1982 at age 55 years old and retired from opera approximately three years later. Of course, she continued to deliver wonderful concert performances for several years. I was fortunate to have heard three of those performances at the Joseph Meyerhoff Hall in Baltimore. I think her last public performance was in 2001, when she stepped out of retirement to participate at a 9-11 related gathering.
My great Diva, I wish you all the best on your 95th birthday. You are responsible for my love of opera. You trapped me on your angelic voice almost 40 years ago. Do you hear a voice of an angel? Yes, she is the best, her name is Leontyne Price.
I have seen her many times at the met..she is one of the greatest opera singers in the world...happy birthday from all us here who love opera............
in addition to all that can be said about the voice and the singing, she was always so gracious. she immediately turns to the conductor to acknowledge him, before accepting applause for herself. she has done that many times, once I even thought her turning away from the audience, to the conductor, was so abrupt. she was always a classy, gracious colleague.
She is bringing so much emotional joy to me right at this very moment in time, 11/5/2023. She has blessed us with that magnificent voice. Love her!!!!!
2:02-2:05 I feel feel like she added a little gospel to that down swing. I love it because she’s a black girl from Laurel, Mississippi who never forgot her gospel roots and even though she became a world famous opera singer…she never forgot who she was.
@ianmorrison3922: You are pathetically behind the times in ‘saluting’ Miss Price to refer her as “a black girl”. DAMN IT! She’s an African-American WOMAN. For your own safety, please do not post on CZcams or visit south of the Mason-Dixon Line with your immature racial attitude.
@ianmorrison3922 The real instances of what you describe she exhibits in private recitals in black and white, including this aria, along with Vissi Darte & the Butterfly death scene. There's a separate video for Signore Ascolta. She injects more of her true self in this private session than she does in performance. She also employs raw power and technique over literal delivery. If you haven't, you must check them out.
Ms. Price is a beautiful woman! Her sultry eyes and expressions reveal the complete & utter joy she had for singing! She executed the high notes with ease and confidence! Her ability to navigate this most difficult aria and to do so with great pleasure is a testament that she was a true soprano!!
This voice singing this music defines what great singing is and set the feet of this African-American boy firmly on the road to learning how is sing in this genre. Thank you Leontyne for setting the bar and leading the way.
I have always loved Kiri's version the best, but this....this hits me hard in my soul. What a talent, what heart!!!! And thank you, God, for Giacomo Puccini.
Her high notes are like sweet needles that pierce our ears and gently pass through our hearts to sew up our broken souls together! ❤ (I'm listening in 12.06.2024)
As a 21 year old, the "Opera" seemed much too esoteric and stuffy for my naive musical tastes. Then I encountered Ms. Price's RCA recording (a cut on her "blue" album) of this aria; afterward I couldn't get enough Opera. Still can't. Thanks "Mama"!
I follow her around on youtube, - they simply dont make them like her anymore. I'll know if they do, she is majestic and it's not a fault for her to know she's so good, anybody discerning would know it so why should she not, - magnifico!
Out of her prime still handling big arias such as this masterpiece by Puccini. Ive heard this aria song by many of the greats kiri, caballe etc but they dont flow as well as price does throughout the climax and pianissimos. Although caballe pianissimo is otherworldly, madam Price does what puccini intended of the work you feel the desperate longing meant to be felt by the lyric.
Price's vocal prowess is absolutely mesmerizing! She effortlessly ascends to the stratosphere with grace and power, delivering a stunning performance that leaves us in awe. What an incredible talent! ❤️🎶
It's a wonderful emotional piece of music! for a SOPRANO And if you can bring it to it's emotional heights!! That's fantastic! Nice performance 🌷🐕💞🐦⬛ Really nice
It's 2024. It's her 97th Birthday. I've watched this countless times. I still blubber like an infant. What did we do to deserve this JEWEL OF A BEING??? NOTHING! She is The GRACE-GIFT of HEAVEN to us! 🎼🎶🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🎶
Me too, the tears just flow down my face whenever I hear this glorious Puccini aria sung by such A superb soprano as Leontyne Price. .
@@andriancurshen3586 Listen to "Senza Mamma" from Suor Angelica. Waterworks everytime.
@@shells500tutubo Senza mamma bimbo tu sei morto. - you died without your mama my baby - Just typing those words brings tears to my eyes. It's impossible to remain dry eyed when you hear this aria. Oh that Puccini, he knew how to wring every last tear from your eyes.
Only sad I wasn’t graced to hear her voice live and in person.
Love her face when she finishes…..secure in the fact that no one can sing THAT aria like THAT!!!! That voice was one of a kind.
The crowd goes absolutely crazy after her last note! Her expression at that moment is so sweet because she knows it is so good, but she also knows it comes from a place outside of herself that she reflects, and it is a celebration of beauty and wonder that is shared by her and the audience in honor of the music and of LIFE!!!! Ahh! Goodness!!!
Amen!!!
I was there - I remember every note - meltingly beautiful. How lucky we were to have lived at a time of Price, Sutherland, Caballé...voices for eternity.
Also, Tebaldi
Oh yes - sorry!
@@pamwren6866
The one, the only, unique, stand-alone DIVA ever. I have loved her for six+ decades. I greatly admire her for never milking the audience. She doesn't need to. And she exhibits such class by acknowledging the orchestra and taking the hand of the Concert Master. Her entrances and exits are majestic, and we are in awe. Thank you, God, for giving us Leontyne Price.
I still remember Renée Fleming (another Opera great) saying that her mother spoke of Leontyne Price in hushed tones. When Fleming met Price when Fleming was still a kid, she said when Price sang every muscle on Price’s body seemed to relax. This is not the way most Opera singers are described.
If you listen to Fleming sing you can hear Leontyne's style sometimes.
How many times have I come back to this particular video...
There are many sopranos that sing this aria, but no soprano has come close to the perfection that Price delivers… past her prime, by the way!!! Brava La Price!!!
I agree I just sene. Someone say Anna Moffo and it’s cool but it’s not this. Lol
Wait---what do you mean, "past her prime"? I can't let that go by. This ageless voice was nothing ever than the very prime representative what the greatest opera singing should be. I was in the audience for her many live recitals over the years and there was never a trace of diminishment. No more conditional compliments!
@@jdawgchappellicious Let's be clear, every singer has their prime, this doesn't mean the voice or quality has diminished, but it does change. I am unashamedly a huge fan of Price, but her best singing years are from 1957-1973ish, she did her best recordings during this time. But her voice and ease of high notes stayed well into her 70's.
@@dantewalston2755 Leontyne is not every singer.
@@dantewalston2755 Interestingly, Ms. Price delivered this heart-piercing performance in March 1982 at age 55 years old and retired from opera approximately three years later. Of course, she continued to deliver wonderful concert performances for several years. I was fortunate to have heard three of those performances at the Joseph Meyerhoff Hall in Baltimore. I think her last public performance was in 2001, when she stepped out of retirement to participate at a 9-11 related gathering.
The great Leontyne Price! The most beautiful voice. Her sound is pure gold!
Happy 97th Anniversary Of Life
Saturday, February 10, 2024
Her Royal Highness
Queen Leontyne Price
Grandest Soprano Of Them ALL !!!!
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
My great Diva, I wish you all the best on your 95th birthday. You are responsible for my love of opera. You trapped me on your angelic voice almost 40 years ago. Do you hear a voice of an angel? Yes, she is the best, her name is Leontyne Price.
the reason I became an Opera singer so many years ago...🙂
2024 Im still here ❤❤❤❤
me too
Her voice is like a flute, absolute perfection. Thank you for posting X
Que bello I cry..
Me too,
ANCHE io.
I have seen her many times at the met..she is one of the greatest opera singers in the world...happy birthday from all us here who love opera............
Happy 95th Anniversary Of Life
February 10, 2022
Her Royal Highness,
Queen Leontyne Price
Grandest Of Them All!
This is beyond imagination! Stunning.
in addition to all that can be said about the voice and the singing, she was always so gracious. she immediately turns to the conductor to acknowledge him, before accepting applause for herself. she has done that many times, once I even thought her turning away from the audience, to the conductor, was so abrupt. she was always a classy, gracious colleague.
Devastatingly beautiful!
She is bringing so much emotional joy to me right at this very moment in time, 11/5/2023. She has blessed us with that magnificent voice. Love her!!!!!
Happy 96th Birthday, Mama Price!
Thanks for this. I cried when I saw this on PBS decades ago. Cried again watching it now lol. Perfection.
The way she plays around with volume, pacing and phrasing makes this so emotional. Gotta love that last note!!!❤❤❤
Holy Smokes !!! What a sound ......
Melts my heart every time.
She was sent from heaven to give us an inkling what perfection is. Bravo Miss Price and thank you for this piece of heaven
One of my absolute favorite opera solos… The test of a great singer…
What a perfect sounding voice. The voice of an angel. Leontyne Price, you are so greatly appreciated.
2:02-2:05 I feel feel like she added a little gospel to that down swing. I love it because she’s a black girl from Laurel, Mississippi who never forgot her gospel roots and even though she became a world famous opera singer…she never forgot who she was.
I thought the same thing!
@ianmorrison3922: You are pathetically behind the times in ‘saluting’ Miss Price to refer her as “a black girl”. DAMN IT! She’s an African-American WOMAN. For your own safety, please do not post on CZcams or visit south of the Mason-Dixon Line with your immature racial attitude.
Madama Price is from Heaven by way of Mississippi.
@ianmorrison3922 The real instances of what you describe she exhibits in private recitals in black and white, including this aria, along with Vissi Darte & the Butterfly death scene. There's a separate video for Signore Ascolta. She injects more of her true self in this private session than she does in performance. She also employs raw power and technique over literal delivery. If you haven't, you must check them out.
Ms. Price is a beautiful woman! Her sultry eyes and expressions reveal the complete & utter joy she had for singing! She executed the high notes with ease and confidence! Her ability to navigate this most difficult aria and to do so with great pleasure is a testament that she was a true soprano!!
This voice singing this music defines what great singing is and set the feet of this African-American boy firmly on the road to learning how is sing in this genre. Thank you Leontyne for setting the bar and leading the way.
No soprano's tone can match hers. It is angelic in a powerful way.
I have always loved Kiri's version the best, but this....this hits me hard in my soul. What a talent, what heart!!!! And thank you, God, for Giacomo Puccini.
Technical matters aside, I think Kiri's timbre suits the aria better than any other singer's I've heard.
Her high notes are like sweet needles that pierce our ears and gently pass through our hearts to sew up our broken souls together!
❤
(I'm listening in 12.06.2024)
Absolutely magnificent.
...semplicemente DIVINA
...SUBLIME ...INSUPERABILE
...grazie ...grazie ...grazie 💐💛
As a 21 year old, the "Opera" seemed much too esoteric and stuffy for my naive musical tastes. Then I encountered Ms. Price's RCA recording (a cut on her "blue" album) of this aria; afterward I couldn't get enough Opera. Still can't. Thanks "Mama"!
The emotions in her tone and her expressions shows she is connected wow 😘
My god I shed a tear. This was magnificent
So lyrical, just magnificent!
Happy Birthday, #LeontynePrice95! 🌹🌹🌹
Wow!!!
ABSOLUTE PERFECTION!!!!
Goosebumps !!!!!
such grace, elegance, poise and virtuosity. a true dame of the arts. bravissima!
A pearl of the great 👍 Price; simply incomparable.
... Leontyne Price ... , É Uma Voz Paradisíaca !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... Das Mais Celestiais ....!!!!!!!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Happy Birthday, La Splendissima!
🎈🎉🎂🥳
Total perfection
While you all debate her tone and all, I am going to praise her glorious pronunciation of the Italian Rs. Yes, her singing was beautiful.
NOBODY sings this aria like Leontyne! If it is the last thing I hear before I depart this world I will die a happy man.
Bellissima!
Simply glorious! Bravissima!
Her voice grabs you and you never want to let go. 😀🖖🏽🌎
What a beauty, grace, peace and joy she share in this master piece🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Perfection. Tears every time.
This is a divine gift.
Heavenly. So inspiring of beautiful things, a beautiful life, and great future happiness. Thank you, Ms. Price.
Incredible voice, can listen all day long.
Breathtaking. Beautiful, elegant, powerful.
I follow her around on youtube, - they simply dont make them like her anymore. I'll know if they do, she is majestic and it's not a fault for her to know she's so good, anybody discerning would know it so why should she not, - magnifico!
Great technique and one of the most beautiful voices ever, She's missed in the opera world.
She sang the best"o holy night" thankyou madame Pryce.
Simply perfect!
Fantástica la Price. Voces de otro tiempo,que hoy no existen. Gracias ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Diva!
This is perfection! DIVINA ❤❤❤❤❤❤💯👌🏻
Thrilling. Just thrilling.
It is this rare type of...audacity, presented most exquisitely here, that crowns Price as sovereign of the operatic voice.
Out of her prime still handling big arias such as this masterpiece by Puccini. Ive heard this aria song by many of the greats kiri, caballe etc but they dont flow as well as price does throughout the climax and pianissimos. Although caballe pianissimo is otherworldly, madam Price does what puccini intended of the work you feel the desperate longing meant to be felt by the lyric.
Prices flow is spectacular, I’ve been listening. To as many versions of this I can find and all pale in comparison
Price's vocal prowess is absolutely mesmerizing! She effortlessly ascends to the stratosphere with grace and power, delivering a stunning performance that leaves us in awe. What an incredible talent! ❤️🎶
Emocionante, as lágrimas....
What a voice!
Suprema 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏desde🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
Amazing 😻
Omgggg this is Sooooo Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🤎🤎🤎🤎✨✨✨✨✨ #BeautifulBlackQueenMagic
Wow. All I can say is W!O!W!!
Now I see where Whitney got it from! It runs in the family🙌🏾
Beautiful. Awe inspiring.
Simply Divine!! Brava!❤
Amazing Thank you Ms Price Thank you God what a voice
1:53-2:15 HERMOSO 💚.
COMO BRILLAN ESOS OJOS 👏🏿🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
I got teary eyed everytime she went high
Pure platinum!❤❤❤❤
So amazing how she can control her voice like that amazing. Just amazing.
Omyy gosh I almost melted In myself I have never liked opera until now I want to learn how to sing opera
Bravi
Literal chills.
I would describe her voice with one word: LUXURIOUS,
GODDESS!!!👏👏👏👏
I had no idea she is related to the Houston/Warwick family! An entire family of incredible vocal talent!!
Wow! Amazing! No wonder, winter had some good linage in her! 🎉❤
она прекрасна!!!!
brava!
It's a wonderful emotional piece of music!
for a SOPRANO
And if you can bring it to it's emotional heights!!
That's fantastic!
Nice performance 🌷🐕💞🐦⬛
Really nice
Leontyne leontynes ❤❤❤
She's such a star!
Listen to her sing "ore dolce divino" from the same opera. Even more beautiful.
She' s the one!
Grandiosa!