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# **During a Rome recording session for Puccini's MADAME BUTTERFLY, soprano Leontyne Price consults with conductor Erich Leinsdorf. - 1966**

**Leontyne Price, Luciano Pavarotti, Leonard Bernstein, Saumel Ramey, Joanne Woodward and Edgar Bronfman Jr**. (Photo by Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)

She was an indispensable voice for Karajan’s opera and concert projects in the 1950s and 1960s – Leontyne Price. [[https://karajan.org/stories/karajan-artists-leontyne-price/](https://karajan.org/stories/karajan-artists-leontyne-price/)](https://karajan.org/stories/karajan-artists-leontyne-price/) The soprano from Mississippi is one of the first Afro-American divas in classical music…

# **ANECDOTES ABOUT LEONTYNE PRICE AND HER RELATIONSHIPS WITH CONDUCTORS & COLLEAGUES** ## **1. Karajan and the First Encounter: “The Most Beautiful Voice in the World”** When Herbert von Karajan first heard Leontyne Price…

# **Franco Corelli, Leontyne Price, Rudolf Bing ** Metropolitan Opera audiences began an extraordinary love affair with American soprano Leontyne Price immediately upon her debut on January 27, 1961 Price was a known entity…

Price, Leontyne, singer - as Countess Leonore in 'Il Trovatore' - 1964 (Photo by Harry Croner/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Leontyne Price Wearing Veil Opera singer Leontyne Price wearing a costume for her debut with the Metropolitan Opera as Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore in 1961.

Portrait of Leontyne Price 1953 Portrait of Leontyne Price in "Porgy & Bess" (Photo by Carl Van Vechten Collection/Getty Images) --

# **LEONTYNE PRICE — A LIFE ** ## **Chapter 1 — Origins in Laurel, Mississippi: A Childhood Shaped by Dignity, Faith, and Song (1927–1944)** Leontyne Price was born Mary Violet Leontyne Price on February…

# **Hans Hotter - Astrid Varnay - **Die Walküre - **Bayreuth 1952**

# **Beethoven - Violin concerto & Romances - Thomas Zehetmair, Frans Bruggen ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/beethoven-violin-145506924?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/beethoven-violin-145506924?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **ALAN CURTIS — A LIFE IN 20 CHAPTERS** *A monumental portrait of a scholar-musician who reshaped our understanding of Baroque opera* ## **Chapter 1 — The Birth of a Curious Mind (1934)** Alan…

# **Conductor (and flutist) Nicholas McGegan fell in love with opera as a kid.** *It came by way of a newfangled record player and one heavenly Mozart recording: * **Herbert von Karajan's recording of…

# **NICHOLAS McGEGAN — A LIFE IN 20 CHAPTERS** *A narrative biography of one of the most influential Baroque conductors of our time* ## **Chapter 1 — Manchester Beginnings (1950)** Nicholas McGegan was born…

# **Beethoven - Violin Concerto in D Major, Op.61; Romance in F Major, Op.50 - Oscar Shumsky, Andrew Davis ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/beethoven-violin-145506008?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/beethoven-violin-145506008?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

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# **Anecdotes and Curiosities from the Life of Paul Kletzki** ## **1. The boy who memorized orchestral scores before he could shave** In Łódź, musicians would give the teenage Kletzki orchestral parts to test…

# **PAUL KLETZKI — A PSYCHOLOGICAL PORTRAIT** *A narrative exploration of a conductor whose interpretations grew out of the deepest wounds and the deepest tenderness.* There are musicians whose art is shaped by talent,…

# **PAUL KLETZKI — A LIFE IN 20 CHAPTERS** *A monumental narrative biography* ## **Chapter 1 — Łódź: Birth in a Multicultural World (1900)** Paul Kletzki was born Paweł Klecki on March 21, 1900,…

# **Biographical Portraits of the Key Figures Who Shaped the Göttingen Handel Tradition** ## **I. Oskar Hagen (1888–1957) — The Visionary Who Reawakened Handel’s Theatre** Oskar Hagen was not a musician by training but…

# **John Eliot Gardiner (left) with his successor Nicholas McGegan ** **In the year 1981, John Eliot Gardiner became the artistic director of the Göttingen festival. **With him, historical instruments and the contemporary understanding…

# **Fritz Lehmann is a musician and conductor. ** In the year 1923, he goes to Göttingen and continues with his studies of musicology at the University of Göttingen. During that time he becomes…