Leontyne Price and Italian tenor Carlo Bergonzi acknowledge the cheers after their performance in ”A Masked Ball” at the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center, on April 16, 1966 in New York. Photo:AFP/Getty Images.
Leontyne Price with fellow American opera singer Urlee Leonardos.
If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don’t think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out, and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.
Leontyne Price
Leontyne Price and William Warfield on their wedding day in August, 1952.
Leontyne Price in a Fashion Fair cosmetics ad from the 1970s.