Her easy high notes voice is remarkable. She usually sustains the high C longer than any other soprano in every case that she has to sing this note. Her pianissimi are so ravishing. Greetings,
My congratulations also to my favorite singer... dear, dear Leontyne....I have admired her since her performance on tour in Medford, Oregon in 1966, and I was lucky enough to be in the audience. How I wish I could have met her. Her voice is so very special, and she is a wonderful person of high ideals, and has earned the grandest of achievements. 🎉 👏
Five years is enough time for significant vocal and artistic achievements in the career of a singer, both up and down. It's fascinating to observe the difference between this performance and the "Voice of Firestone" performance of 1963. In 1958, Price was making her European debuts in Aida, having just debuted the role in San Francisco in 1957. We can see how dramatically vital she is in the role as well as hear the earnest work of an exceptional new star. But the 1963 performance is next level. The dramatic element has been all but eliminated to showcase an overwhelming vocal achievement. The beauty, fullness, dynamic control, phrasing...everything about the vocal performance tarries on a level that you would have to go backwards to singers of another time to match. The five years between the two performances really show Price's graduation from up and coming star to full-fledged prima donna. And to think that she would continue to be able to sing this aria at this level until 1985.
why is everyone always concerned with the best? callas, price, who cares. Both women are amazing singers and whether or not you like one or the other, just enjoy the music. if you don't enjoy one person interpretation of it, don't watch it and take your negativity and ignorance somewhere else please!
THERE ARE two greatest Aidas by me and a lot of people arround the world. One is Mrs.Price the other is Mrs. Zinka Milanov, period. All voices in the world, present, or past have their uniquines and are recognizable.Each opera goer or lover has different ear and taste, its the same with the pictures in the gallery different people are seeing differently. Any how anyine who can do ART in higher level is worthy walking on this small world. Long live the OPERA
The world is lucky to have had this voice, and this person, with this technique and such a voluptuous sound, to sing this music. Why must such perfection always come to an end? Can we put her back on stage?Please!
She was a wonderful Aida .I have and had many versions of Aida and I love every one of them .Her acting,whilst singing is wonderful ,she makes every millimetre of my skin tingle every time Thank you so much for uploading
It was obviously natural ability mixed with solid technique. I've actually never heard anyone do it quite as beautifully. I've just come back from a performance from the Met where the singer omitted that note and just repeated the B flat. I don't know if she was sick or what, but it angered me so much. Cuz the rest of the performance she was great. They tend to like to cast black sopranos in this role now but none of them can do the pianissimo on top like that..I've listened to all of them. We were spoiled with the musicality, beauty and EVERYTHING that Price gives in this.
4:09 Leontyne price does the o patria mia high C much better than Callas who even screams and wobbles on the high C here even in her prime (here it's 1951) : ruclips.net/video/AhBuF4PodRE/видео.html
@@Xelth4 Callas and Price can not be compare. Price is a lyric soprano and Callas was a dramatic soprano. Thank you: ruclips.net/video/7p6AMVAmSXA/видео.htmlsi=5D0KtKcnwH4xtJ90
I love this role because this was when her career really started to jump off, 6 years before her Met Debut she wasn't singing this role in big houses yet, but she was great in the small studio. Then the 1959-60 recordings, than the '61 Met debut, then a decade of amazing recodings/opera performances in her absolute prime. Oh Leontye, I kind of worship you.
Gorgeous! And very interesting to see how more animated she is here than a few years later. It's always fascinating to watch how an artist develops with time and with Ms Price one can do just that watching the different versions of this aria on RUclips.
I know they have her final Aida from 1985 available for rental online. They also have her Forza del Destino from '84 and a bunch of other audio recordings.
Forse anche di più, visto la lunga carriera che ha fatto,;La Callas, che ovviamente tutti amiamo, con l'aver rivoluzionato l'opera, facendola diventare Vero Teatro e non solo note cantate bene, ha aperto la strada a tutti i soprani che sono venute dopo di lei
She was the best Aida in the history of Opera ever... even better than Maria Callas!!!!! it is a fact! in reality, Aida could be a black, because she was egyptian... so, what a amazing coincidence?!.... BRAVO LEONTYNE PRICE
Does anyone else ever get sad not only on behalf of the art we lost (the library of Alexandria, paintings destroyed during ww2) but also on behalf of the CHANCES to make art that we lost? Imagine, a black opera singer the likes of Price, working with MOZART. Imagine the powerful voices that were lost to prejudice. It's just downright depressing....
... Um. Is this a serious question? This video was recorded in 1958. Leontyne Price retired from Opera in 1985. Where have you been, honey? Under a rock? Lol.
r u people crazy? price was queen of verdi roles? callas is one of the greats (in part becauae of her great stage presence, but with her thin voice theres no way one could call her the best aida...come on.
Unfortunately yoou are wrong Stome3139 !!!! by your words you just revealed that you know just a bit in belcanto! I am a singer, and I really know what is difficult and easy in this sphere. go a listen to the recording of Maria Callas as Aida and you will found my words very right!!!
You may not be able to appreciate Price but to call her voice grotesque !! Why this unnecessary provokation? When commenting on on the pros and cons of the artists why stoop to this level ? Listen to her Gonoud´s Ave Maria. Is that at PETITE voice ? Are you, by chance, a Head Banger´s fan or where did you come up with such an incompetent notion ?
When u have seat in any great opera house plqued with your name after long and successful carear, than we can talk. Shooting with flat, sharp, B's,C's, doesn't make you competent and reliable source. Before listening any music in the future, please clean your ears deeeeeply.
Although I like her Aida much, there is a singer who did it better, and I want you guys to know it......it is Arangi-Lombardi. She is much better; unfortunately due to the quality of old record I am not sure if you will be able to grasp it right away, but try...you won't regret. Brava Mrs. Price.
She sounds amazing 👏👏👏 I just learned she is related to Cissy Houston, Whitney Houston and Dionne Warwick. While a different genre such incredible singing talent in one family.
examining and discussing is great but tearing down serves no one. the sword one wields is the same sword one must suffer. if you have not had a singing career, criticism is a sign of ignorance
You are so funny talking about Titans. who are you?-noone and nothing!I told that you know just a bit in belcanto,didn't I? but now i am completely ensured that you know absolutely nothing! I didn't say that Maria is my model. her recording is really best ever. just you are duff!!! bye
Poor Stome you should listen to Callas Aida, but with the HUGE attention this time: how she sings the words:"Di mai piu" or "Vedro". dont make any comments about me as a singer, because you have never listened to my recordings! I have my Model in singing that is Franco Corelli
To me she’s the definitive Aida!!
Her easy high notes voice is remarkable. She usually sustains the high C longer than any other soprano in every case that she has to sing this note. Her pianissimi are so ravishing. Greetings,
Happy 95th Anniversary Of Life
February 10, 2022
Her Royal Highness,
Queen Leontyne Price
Grandest Of Them All!
My congratulations also to my favorite singer... dear, dear Leontyne....I have admired her since her performance on tour in Medford, Oregon in 1966, and I was lucky enough to be in the audience.
How I wish I could have met her. Her voice is so very special, and she is a wonderful person of high ideals, and has earned the grandest of achievements. 🎉 👏
This is what Aida is suppose to sound like! Not Tebaldi! Absolute perfection! It doesnt get any better than this, and I doubt it ever will!
flawless performance. She is the embodiment of Aida.
Five years is enough time for significant vocal and artistic achievements in the career of a singer, both up and down. It's fascinating to observe the difference between this performance and the "Voice of Firestone" performance of 1963. In 1958, Price was making her European debuts in Aida, having just debuted the role in San Francisco in 1957. We can see how dramatically vital she is in the role as well as hear the earnest work of an exceptional new star. But the 1963 performance is next level. The dramatic element has been all but eliminated to showcase an overwhelming vocal achievement. The beauty, fullness, dynamic control, phrasing...everything about the vocal performance tarries on a level that you would have to go backwards to singers of another time to match. The five years between the two performances really show Price's graduation from up and coming star to full-fledged prima donna. And to think that she would continue to be able to sing this aria at this level until 1985.
I am left breathless. Again and again. I worship price. Oh lord.
I agree with you... Price simply owns that role... I cannot think of her without remembering of "Aida"...
why is everyone always concerned with the best? callas, price, who cares. Both women are amazing singers and whether or not you like one or the other, just enjoy the music. if you don't enjoy one person interpretation of it, don't watch it and take your negativity and ignorance somewhere else please!
I agree, Mr. Gerst. thank you!
@@bucktones😮
The best is usually a placeholder for my favorite, and we discuss it as "the best" in order to share our wonder and appreciation.
I met Ms Price. I will never forget it. She was so gracious and elegant.
Tell us more!
ESPLÊNDIDA ATRIZ , TBM !!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
THERE ARE two greatest Aidas by me and a lot of people arround the world. One is Mrs.Price the other is Mrs. Zinka Milanov, period.
All voices in the world, present, or past have their uniquines and are recognizable.Each opera goer or lover has different ear and taste, its the same with the pictures in the gallery different people are seeing differently. Any how anyine who can do ART in higher level is worthy walking on this small world. Long live the OPERA
The world is lucky to have had this voice, and this person, with this technique and such a voluptuous sound, to sing this music. Why must such perfection always come to an end? Can we put her back on stage?Please!
Ms. Price is now 92yrs. of age. That in itself may have something to do with it such as being retired now!!!
She was a wonderful Aida .I have and had many versions of Aida and I love every one of them .Her acting,whilst singing is wonderful ,she makes every millimetre of my skin tingle every time Thank you so much for uploading
She sings this really nice and beautiful tone. This is the great Leontyne at her grandest. If you haven't heard her Aida, you never heard Verdi.
amen
The best female opera in the world
very moving. goes straight to the heart.
Happy Birthday, #LeontynePrice95!🌹🌹🌹
leontyne!!! una de las voces mas hermosas que he podido escuchar esta aria de aida es maravillosa quien mejor para cantarla que leontyne. wonderful
Flawless and fantastic!
That high C in pianissimo is very impressive, sometimes I wonder how she was able to pull off such a glorious notes in total control of it.
It does help. Thanks for letting me know about Matteo Manuguerra started singing at 35.
It was obviously natural ability mixed with solid technique. I've actually never heard anyone do it quite as beautifully. I've just come back from a performance from the Met where the singer omitted that note and just repeated the B flat. I don't know if she was sick or what, but it angered me so much. Cuz the rest of the performance she was great. They tend to like to cast black sopranos in this role now but none of them can do the pianissimo on top like that..I've listened to all of them. We were spoiled with the musicality, beauty and EVERYTHING that Price gives in this.
(also at her farewell performance she sang the top C astoundingly well as well)
4:09 Leontyne price does the o patria mia high C much better than Callas who even screams and wobbles on the high C here even in her prime (here it's 1951) : ruclips.net/video/AhBuF4PodRE/видео.html
@@Xelth4 Callas and Price can not be compare. Price is a lyric soprano and Callas was a dramatic soprano. Thank you: ruclips.net/video/7p6AMVAmSXA/видео.htmlsi=5D0KtKcnwH4xtJ90
I love this role because this was when her career really started to jump off, 6 years before her Met Debut she wasn't singing this role in big houses yet, but she was great in the small studio. Then the 1959-60 recordings, than the '61 Met debut, then a decade of amazing recodings/opera performances in her absolute prime. Oh Leontye, I kind of worship you.
FoggyRoad81 This was taped in fall 1958, after she had sung the role in several big opera houses (SF, Vienna, Verona, Covent Garden).
Dam, this is good!!!! Dam!!!!
Amazing singing.
Truly stunning.
Amazing. Amazing singing in what I think was definitely the best opera Verdi ever wrote.
Bella soprano!!! no te olvidaremos. Diva!!! perfetta!!!
Beautiful voice. Very well suited and well performed.
LA MEILLEURE AIDA DU SIECLE DERNIER ET POUR TOUJOURS
JUST AWESOME!
Gorgeous! And very interesting to see how more animated she is here than a few years later. It's always fascinating to watch how an artist develops with time and with Ms Price one can do just that watching the different versions of this aria on RUclips.
The Human Voice! The Leontyne Price! they are both the same!
stupendo...
Muy hermosa la interpretacion de esta cantante!!!
Bravissima
The only Aida for me. Just as some sopranos own certain roles, this is Price's role. This cannot be better.
I know they have her final Aida from 1985 available for rental online. They also have her Forza del Destino from '84 and a bunch of other audio recordings.
КЛАСС! КОСМОС!
HAIL TO PRINCESS AIDA!!!
❤️🎼❤️🌷
actually, Aidi was an Ethiopian princess, so it's authentic for her to be black. IMHO the best Aida ever, born to sing the role.
Yay glad this is back up, do you happeb to have the Ciel Mio Padre and Pur Ti Riveggio from this performance.
Era divna quasi famosa come La Callas
Forse anche di più, visto la lunga carriera che ha fatto,;La Callas, che ovviamente tutti amiamo, con l'aver rivoluzionato l'opera, facendola diventare Vero Teatro e non solo note cantate bene, ha aperto la strada a tutti i soprani che sono venute dopo di lei
c'è un'altra cosa da dire, molte opere la Callas le ha solo incise e di alcune ha cantato solo le arie più famose
She was the best Aida in the history of Opera ever... even better than Maria Callas!!!!! it is a fact! in reality, Aida could be a black, because she was egyptian... so, what a amazing coincidence?!.... BRAVO LEONTYNE PRICE
When was this recorded?
1958
ASEMPLARE !!! ... LA RICORDO A ROMA NEL 1966 ...
Does anyone else ever get sad not only on behalf of the art we lost (the library of Alexandria, paintings destroyed during ww2) but also on behalf of the CHANCES to make art that we lost?
Imagine, a black opera singer the likes of Price, working with MOZART. Imagine the powerful voices that were lost to prejudice. It's just downright depressing....
Agustina Kazuyo Yeah I think about that every now and then.
I can probably sing it if I tried. I'm a massive alto, but I can sing really high when I do a vibrato lol
😂
Hahahaha
... Um. Is this a serious question? This video was recorded in 1958. Leontyne Price retired from Opera in 1985. Where have you been, honey? Under a rock? Lol.
r u people crazy? price was queen of verdi roles? callas is one of the greats (in part becauae of her great stage presence, but with her thin voice theres no way one could call her the best aida...come on.
Unfortunately yoou are wrong Stome3139 !!!! by your words you just revealed that you know just a bit in belcanto! I am a singer, and I really know what is difficult and easy in this sphere. go a listen to the recording of Maria Callas as Aida and you will found my words very right!!!
You may not be able to appreciate Price but to call her voice grotesque !! Why this unnecessary provokation? When commenting on on the pros and cons of the artists why stoop to this level ? Listen to her Gonoud´s Ave Maria. Is that at PETITE voice ? Are you, by chance, a Head Banger´s fan or where did you come up with such an incompetent notion ?
When u have seat in any great opera house plqued with your name after long and successful carear, than we can talk. Shooting with flat, sharp, B's,C's, doesn't make you competent and reliable source. Before listening any music in the future, please clean your ears deeeeeply.
Although I like her Aida much, there is a singer who did it better, and I want you guys to know it......it is Arangi-Lombardi. She is much better; unfortunately due to the quality of old record I am not sure if you will be able to grasp it right away, but try...you won't regret. Brava Mrs. Price.
She sounds amazing 👏👏👏 I just learned she is related to Cissy Houston, Whitney Houston and Dionne Warwick. While a different genre such incredible singing talent in one family.
examining and discussing is great but tearing down serves no one. the sword one wields is the same sword one must suffer. if you have not had a singing career, criticism is a sign of ignorance
Not true. Criticism is healthy.
Aida was Ethiopian
You are so funny talking about Titans. who are you?-noone and nothing!I told that you know just a bit in belcanto,didn't I? but now i am completely ensured that you know absolutely nothing! I didn't say that Maria is my model. her recording is really best ever. just you are duff!!! bye
BAH HA HA...
This is Whitney Houston’s cousin.
In my personal opinion this music is very mid yeat is better by far
Poor Stome you should listen to Callas Aida, but with the HUGE attention this time: how she sings the words:"Di mai piu" or "Vedro". dont make any comments about me as a singer, because you have never listened to my recordings! I have my Model in singing that is Franco Corelli
The libretto refers to her as Ethiopian. Aida is fictional, so historical context is irrelevant.