Leontyne Price, as Lenore - the aria “D'amor sull'ali rosee” from Giuseppe Verdi’s Il Trovatore
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2016
- Leontyne Price, as Lenore - the aria “D'amor sull'ali rosee” (On the rosy wings of love) from Giuseppe Verdi’s Il Trovatore
The Metropolitan Opera invited Ms. Price to sing a pair of performances as Aida in 1958, but she turned down the offer on the advice of friends, including Peter Herman Adler, director of NBC Opera. In his autobiography, William Warfield writes that Adler said, "Leontyne is to be a great artist. When she makes her debut at the Met, she must do it as a lady, not a slave."
In 1959, after hearing her in Il Trovatore that August at Verona with tenor Franco Corelli, Met General Manager Rudolf Bing invited her to join the Met company in the 1960-61 season. On January 27, 1961, she and Corelli made a triumphant double-debut in Il Trovatore. The final ovation lasted at least 35 minutes, one of the longest in Met history. (Price often said her friends or family had timed it at 42 minutes, and that was the number used in her later publicity.)
In his review, The New York Times critic Harold C. Schonberg wrote that Price's "voice, warm and luscious, has enough volume to fill the house with ease, and she has a good technique to back up the voice itself. She even took the trills as written, and nothing in the part as Verdi wrote it gave her the least bit of trouble. She moves well and is a competent actress. But no soprano makes a career of acting. Voice is what counts, and voice is what Miss Price has."
This is a live telecast of the role dated 1963. 
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This is the role that brought the house down at the Met and caused a 45 minute ovation.
@janettucker3196: While the 42 min ovation (timed by her dad) came at the end of the opera, this aria alone earned her a 19 min ovation. What a thrilling night that double-debut, with Corelli, must have been!
She is now 97. Still sings every day. Says it is the only thing that still works.
Ms. Price owns this aria. There are a number of marvellous renditions out there but this one leads the pack. It is a work of sheer, nuanced genius. Years ago I was on the edge of death and played this over and over again, knowing my time had come. That was 36 years ago and I am still here...as is Ms. Price...thankfully in both cases. It saved my life.
Bravo. Keep listening and keep breathing.
@@sw5114 Thank you!!!!! Good idea!
In my opinion there has never been a Verdian soprano on this level ever since. At the time of this recording Leontyne Price's voice didn't have a single flaw or weak spot - from the dark and mezzo-like low register through the firm and round middle voice up to the sensationally easy and ringing top. The evenness of the vibrato, the flawless legato, the tasteful portamenti, even a near-accurate trill (which is rare in heavier voices), the effortless high C and even D flat in the cadenza, the coexistence of power and stamina with elegance and sensitivity, and an overall superior musicianship... Thank you so much for posting this gem!
Thx 🙏 for posting this. I have always felt her phrasing was spectacular. Always natural, but so full and over the top, but in a good way. You always felt like you were watching the major league of singers. She was always ready for prime time.
As time goes on, we really don't hear the command of the tippy top the way Price had. It's all splattered, as that's the only way they can get up there. It's true. It isn't hanging onto the past, it's just that Price set the bar so high, it's hard not to compare.
She strayed off fairly quickly and became one of the ugliest voices of the time though
Second to ur comment! She is amazing soprano!
I agree with you. And my respects for the rest of the sopranos that have sung that aria, but her singing and performing level in the aria was more than superb, it was quintessential and extraordinary, was perfection. Also, the beautiful dignity she portrays while singing is exquisite. ❤
I just listened to both Tebaldi andPonselle, two of the sopranos with the warmest, richest sound ever. But Leontyne sings this aria more beautifully than anyone else. I have already requested that her version be played at my funeral.
Lots of singers can impress. Leontyne *MOVES* you.
That part.
She was singing from her soul and heart. This is so beautiful.
I met her voice in Trovatore almost 40 ago on the LP record. She sang this, her voice touched me very deeply. My god, who is this? I know that I am not the only one who did not survive the clash with Leontyne Price without consequences. She caused my love for opera. Nobody has such a beautiful voice as her. I have many various beloved sopranos, but La Price was the first. She is the best, she is a Goddess. Do you hear an angel voice? Yes, I hear the voice of an angel. She is a black lady, her name is Leontyne Price.
She not only has command of every dynamic and technical skill, she is MUSICAL and the entire package, something sorely missed these days. You get someone with good technique, someone that looks good, someone with good deportment, but rarely someone with the entire package that stands in full command of their gift and pours it upon you like so much delicious liqueur and syrup the way Price did.
One of the greatest sopranos of the 20thC,but certainly the greatest Verdi soprano ever.
"Musik ist eine heilige Kunst"...The outstanding and unique Leontyne Price is not only a singer, she is an artist, sings like an angel and creates her sounds like the old great masters did ther paintings. That is beyond the highest level of opera singing.....THIS IS MAGIC AND COMES DIRECTLY FROM HEAVEN !!!!
First time hearing this performance! Simply stunning! Brava!!!
Ms. Price is a gift to the world. I recently saw her interviewed on the Great Performances special called "The Opera House", about the building of the new Met on the west side of NYC in the 1960s. Samuel Barber was commissioned to compose a new opera, which was "Antony and Cleopatra". There were lots of technical issues with the opening night, but what I especially enjoyed were the interviews with Justino Diaz, who played Antony, and Ms. Price who sang Cleopatra...both living and in fine fettle. This was especially amusing and made me LOL - but I agree 100%: at one point, she said, "You just want to hug yourself, you sound so good." If anyone is entitled to say that, it is she!
I attended her Alma Mater, Central State University. Such an honor. I am also an operatic soprano.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Some of the best singing I've ever heard.
Perfect. Exquisite trills, absolutely stunning dramatic performance. Period.
Mrs Leontyne is my late night treat and inspiration. She helps me make it through the dreary days. ONLY GOD could have have kissed her vocal cords and blessed her with this other worldly talent. Each time I hear her I marvel. Talent this superb was and remains the quintiesential ' kiss my ass' to racism. I love you Mrs Price!
Happy 94th Anniversary Of Life
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Our Dearest & Grandest
Madame Leontyne Price
Happy 92nd Anniversary Of Life
Sunday, February 10, 2019
Soprano, Leontyne Price
Queen Of Them All!
And She Shall Reign Forever!
ChagoWilson One year passed. May God bless her!
The glory of this rendition cannot be matched! There is so much emotion pouring forth in her vocal colouring, I'm completely moved and believe every word she's singing! Thank you for posting this stunning performance.
Most beautiful, touching and for me perfect singing ever heard on this planet.
Sicuramente una delle migliori Leonara,di ogni tempo!!! Grazie
Unbelievably perfect and moving
What a gorgeous voice. Thank you!
Leontyne ain’t got no business sangin’ this song like this 😂😊 Oh so beautiful! 🥰
No WORDS.🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷💎💎💎💎💎💎
There are no words,gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous💝💝💝💝
0:50 SHE BETTA SWAY!!!
Everything 5:20 and after was ICONIC lmao
2:36-2:42 is probably the most perfect of the whole thing...besides the dramatic sashays 😭😭😂🤣
A very delicate voice , alongside caballe and gencer
Sublime soprano !
Oh my God what incredible voice ….
This aria is truly yours Leontine!
Her Aida was the best of all times.
Dal vivo una voce impressionante.
Magnifica!
❤
If there was just one singer with half the artistry Price offers on today’s operatic stage such a sad situation!
voz clara nítida que agudos potente hermosa de. las mejores
Truly really amazingly fantastic. Thank you Leontyne!!!
That was overwhelmingly beautiful ❤️❤️❤️
MARAVILLOSA
A friend of mine, opera trainer, told me the secret: verdi wrote this for leontyne price!!
I believe it.
nicholas moore I heard many years ago that when Madame Price sang IL TROVATORE @ la Scala for the first time. The OPERA reviews came out the next day and it said " that her voice was enough to resurrect Verdi" After those first performances they could not get enough of Her luscious creamy Primal voice. My wife and I saw her twice in concert it was certainly a magical hypnotic moment. Sincerly Arnold Bourbon Amaral 🌎🌍🌏🌿🌹
And why not? If Giuseppe really did write this for Leontyne, then he was richly repaid the moment she opened her mouth, especially as she sang this aria...
@@arnoldamaral7406 For the record, she never sang Trovatore at La Scala. Perhaps they said that about her Aida.
I doubt it considering Verdi died in 1901 and Leontyne Price was born in 1927.
Magnífica sensacional 😍😘
No one has ever sung this better! Just WOW!!!
Callas sang it way better.
I must agree callas version I prefer
@@mistersmith1883 Leontyne has a celestial voice and her top notes spin out and are hit head on and are perfect - but Callas sings from a deep place, she bares her soul and emotes through song like no other, her version of this aria from 1952 where she adds the enormous high-D is probably the most immense moment in operatic history.
@@markdrinkwater1508 agreed. However I prefer her 58 Paris damor sull'ali rose
@@markdrinkwater1508 NOT way BETTER..MAYBE NOT EVEN BETTER just differently
That is awesome and amazing!
Just beautiful ❤️
que du plaisir, merci Madame.
Lovely and colours of set and costume too.
Leontyne Price is the most
excellent soporano all history..
No other word is necessory.
Callas has no rival.
@@markdrinkwater1508 Of course she does.
@@liedersanger1 Wrong - Price can never get close, Callas' voice is unmatched on so many levels - like Bach or Mizart - or Franklin in the pop field - Callas is a rival-less artist.
Absolutely divine...
THIS is how this aria is to be sung! There will never be another Leontyne.
😊😊😊❤❤
Csodálatos!
True i am from salzburg and every year we go to the festspiele
Люблю Леонору, люблю Леонтину..
Beautiful Verdi dramatic colorutura soprano.
that trill WE SHOULD HAVE CELEBRATED THAT MUCH MORE.
What trill? That tentative fakery? She was too enamoured of her gorgeousness.
Oh my goodness. She rivals Maria Callas Il Trovatore! She stunning! Leontynes voice touches me very much. Perfection!!!
Callas has no rival, she said it herself.
More than rivals Callas. In this role LP is supreme. Beauty of tone and an easy floating top are requirements here, neither of which Callas had.
@@liedersanger1 Callas' D'amor with her high D is unmatched..
You can keep your floating and your perfect - it is soulless and boring. Price' D'amor is rushed, it doesn't move the listener the way Callas' sound did.
Price' voice was pristine with a celestial sound, but there are many sooranos who are more pristine and celestial in their sound, Halstein for one - with otherworldly tone far exceeding that of Price.
Callas was the most soulful singer of all time, nobody in opera music emotes through song like Callas. Her voice was just so much more captivating.
@@markdrinkwater1508 These are opinions-both yours and mine.
@@liedersanger1 Mine ate facts - Price trails in Callas' wake.
.....pues si que debe ser verdad eso que dicen.......que el cielo está aquí en la tierra.
SUBLIME!!!!!!!!!,( sin nada más que añadir).
molto brava
5:23 GODDESS!
no one- NO ONE- has sang this aria better.
Joan Sutherland and Maria Callas
I agree with Hardin. No one has sung this better.
Martina Arroyo wasn't exactly chopped liver. Listen to her 1971 version.
Montserrat Caballé
Lol Callas has higher score...
Since 1979
Io ho acquistato la musicassetta con Domingo e milness 40 anni fa. Legato alla Price, il pathos della callas è altrettanto intenso. due artiste eccezzionali. In quest'aria forse sono superiori alla Caballè e Sutherland, altri due mostri
Brilliant.*¨*•.¸¸ ॐ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪
ASAS ROSADAS
"D'amor sull'ali rosee" - Il Trovatore, do compositor
Giuseppe Verdi, há suspiros e indagação do medo.
A noite escura envolve a mulher que chora com dor,
Sem ele saber. Será que sabia que tudo é arremedo?
Aurora raiando na madrugada, isto respira ao redor,
Trazendo lembrança de asas rosadas, memória grava
Sem que sinta o que está acontecendo de mal a pior.
D'amor sull'ali rosee, ária de Leonora, que amava.
No 4º ato, da ópera Il Trovatore, de Verdi, é um luar
Escondido nas sombras das nuvens indo ao redor,
Visão dos poetas cantando o amor deve continuar
Nas asas rosadas em que lirismo encontra o melhor
Abrigo. Após a pandemia na Terra o que é sofredor
Será transformado em dádiva agradecida ao Senhor. (*)
(*) FERNANDO PINHEIRO, presidente da Academia de Letras dos Funcionários do Banco do Brasil. - ASAS ROSADAS (poesia), de Fernando Pinheiro. - in O mundo de Morfeu, de Fernando Pinheiro.
Divine et sublime Leontyne Price , tout aussi merveilleuse que Callas mais dans un autre style vocal, absolument magnifique vocalement et au sommet de son art au début des années 60
Were the artists singing in real time with the accompaniment of recorded orchestral music? Or were they recorded as well and they were only acting in the telecasts?
Neither. There was an orchestra off camera in these 60s broadcasts.
Altro che la Garifullina....
Bravoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...........................................
A time when sopranos didn't sound like a whaling banshee
Leontyne is second to no one! She's first, best in all she has sung. Calles is more dramatic. Price is ALL about voice, as it should be.
incredible breath I do not see..low the way it should be and very long serving
Beautiful voice, but Maria C. delivered the emotion. My opinion....
5:22 - 5:24 is scary - not good.
Ugh hi
Leontyne's canned gestures detract from this performance. In her era, however, it was all about the voice and whose voice fit the part. Nowadays, singers must be fit, act and not only possess the voice. Imo, I feel Maria Callas played and sang every roll to perfection, from colouratoura to mezzo roles. Such a consummate musician and artist she was. It's why she never played the Met because Bing and she clashed about her supporting singers and her wanting great singers and actors to match her talent. No sopranos today can emulate or even come close to her artistry and nuanced, thoughtful, sensitive and electrifying performances. (although Damarau comes close).
Long live the dead.
But Callas DID sing at the Met. Do some research.
@@liedersanger1 I read her bio in which the author claimed she didn't sing at and turned down contracts at the Met. If I can believe what one posts on the Internet, then I bow to its posting of her singing the titled role in Tosca with Tito Gobbi as her Scarpia.
Damrau comes close ????????? Damrau is absolutely dreadful is EVERY sense of the word , to hear her name in the same sentence with Callas shows your lack of artistic intelligence.
@@ivanwillard6818 You can always go to the Metropolitan opera archives page and look things up.
@@liedersanger1 I don't need to go to NYC to do research at the MET archives. Spoken like a true Nyer who thinks everything artistic and operatic revolves around NY and the Met. Bevery Sills sang her heart out at the NY City Opera. May bubbles rest in peace.
like Callas
Voice is too light for the part and certainly for Verdi plus she struggles with coloratura badly!
Great and exciting singing with some technic flaws (poorly executed trills in the first part and bad diction). Just second to Maria Callas 1951 in Napoli.
and now this is cultural approbiation ... the world has gone mad