Leontyne Price

Joan Sutherland was cheated by the Grammys

2010-10-12 16:33:22

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Jasper Johns is first studio artist in 34 years to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

2011-02-14 16:33:03

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Shirley Verrett dies at 79; acclaimed mezzo-soprano

2010-11-07 00:00:00

Shirley Verrett, an acclaimed American mezzo-soprano and soprano praised for her blazing intensity during a career that spanned four decades, died Friday in Ann Arbor, Mich. She was 79. Verrett, one of the top opera singers of the 1970s and '80s, had...

Will 'This Is It' win Michael Jackson another Grammy?

2009-10-12 16:32:57

National radio broadcast of NEA's opera awards will elude L.A.

2009-11-04 16:32:36

Opera is Rufus Wainwright's 'main squeeze'

2010-07-11 00:00:00

Classical music is often maligned for its apparent insistence that aspiring acolytes display proper credentials before becoming a true follower. Once admitted to the fold, you must bow to the altar of knowledge and denounce uncomplicated pleasure as the...

Betty Allen dies at 82; mezzo-soprano and music teacher

2009-07-27 00:00:00

Betty Allen, one of the first African American singers to reach prominence on the international opera stage, died June 22 of complications from kidney disease at a hospital in Valhalla, N.Y. She was 82. If contralto Marian Anderson in the 1930s and 1940s...

Price, Levine, Floyd, Gaddes to get NEA honors

2008-05-13 18:21:00

Soprano Leontyne Price, conductor James Levine, composer Carlisle Floyd and administrator Richard Gaddes will be the initial recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts Opera Honors. The awards, patterned after the NEA Jazz Masters honors that were...

TO CLAP OR NOT TO CLAP: A TOUCHY QUESTION

1986-11-09 00:00:00

Something strange seems to be happening in that spiffy new concert hall in Orange County. People are clapping. The happy and justifiably proud Costa Mesans, and friends, are clapping con brio and con gusto. They are clapping loudly, smugly and dutifully....

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2010-06-11 08:11:09

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A master of lyricism, gone, not forgotten

2011-03-30 15:13:00

Classical review, Jessye Norman at Symphony Center

2002-05-21 00:00:00

After two celebrated decades as one of opera's reigning divas, Jessye Norman may be near that crossroads all singers dread. At age 56, she doesn't quite possess the lustrous, supple, versatile voice that distinguished her prime, although its capaciousness...

Price got her first chances to play Aida -- one of her memorable roles -- by filling in for stricken singers.

2009-09-10 12:58:29