She had one the most beautiful voices I ever heard.

The richness of her voice even when it reaches effortlessly into the upper octaves is out of this world. Hers is a once in a lifetime gift. What a grand diva. She's absolutely gorgeous as well., WOW!

the opening chest notes. so free and powerful. and a beautiful upper register

@lauriedesantis-staschik4915

3 жыл бұрын

It's not encouraged by teachers now but I think that is wrong. It brings so much drama and she does it in a very healthy way and is able to flawlessly mix her chest and head notes!! Brilliant!

Beauty, Power, Grace, and the indomitable royal spirit enough to unequivocally dominate the contest of love, country, and in the end her own emotions. This portrayal by Leontyne Price, the Prima Soprano Asolutta de Verdi will endure forever.

@burnellbrowne4303

5 жыл бұрын

bravo miss price thank you for sharing such A JEWEL with us all.

Wow, she’s an amazing singer! Beautiful lady too. 😍🥰😘❤️

Exquisite, the best Aida ever. No-one owns this role like Leontyne does. Bravo!

@cynthiagraham9117

8 жыл бұрын

Yes I did listen to her version and loved it but I just cant go past Leontyne Prices lyrical voice. Im in heaven when I listen to her!

@xxsaruman82xx87

5 жыл бұрын

Without a doubt

Her dramatic opening gives me goosebumps. Her ensuing lyricism brings me to tears. The best version of this aria, bar none. This role was made for her.

She is so beautiful here!

@tonyventura4605

Ай бұрын

She's always beautiful!

Voices like Leontyne are like a rare jewel, that sparkles naturally. She sang throughout her tessitura with ease and constraint, singing on the "interest and not the principle..." as Robert Merrill would say. She embodied Michael Angelo's definition of beauty "The purgation of superfluity" or "the burning away of excess" and produced a purity of tone and power rarely surpassed!

She remade and redefined the possibilities of this role. Beautiful and eternal.

@crazyorganist1609

3 ай бұрын

No she really didn't. The orchestra consistently drowned her in performance

@shettywap

3 күн бұрын

​@@crazyorganist1609 tell us more about hearing her live!!! Also, some of your faves from this era that you liked!

Y’all… I’m only watching this because my name is Aida and all of my adult life people have been telling me to listen to “my” opera. A friend just sent this to me and I got chills with this one! Beautiful!!

@vinemp

4 ай бұрын

There's even a children's book (with the GORGEOUS illustrations of Leo & Diane Dillon)!

@aidathegreat

4 ай бұрын

@@vinemp🤩

There will never be a better Aida than Price's. She owns the role...

Leontyne Price is the perfect Aida.

MY GOD WHAT A DIVA!

The way the text is treated by Leontyne Price is beautiful and nearly made me cry.

@arnoldamaral7406

3 жыл бұрын

Do phrasing is incredible to be sure. 🇫🇷🍷 Arnold Bourbon Amaral

That tepid applause at the end is insulting. This is Price in her prime, and there's nothing else in the world like her.

@crazyorganist1609

3 ай бұрын

It speaks volumes about how they didn't like her interpretation

@liedersanger1

2 ай бұрын

@@crazyorganist1609 who didn’t like it?

An odd thought, but it makes me a bit sad to think Verdi never got to hear this. Surely, even in his head, he couldn't have imagined a more beautifully accomplished performance.

@vinemp

4 ай бұрын

What grave melancholy, that sooo brilliant artists---O, heavens, why always the ones who bring us such joy?--- didn't/shan't live to see their art (1) fully realized and (2) fully appreciated.

Beautiful in every respect!!!

Wow, she’s still alive today at 94! Most people don’t even make it to 80!

Sings like an angel!

VOICE, VOICE VOICE VOICE....CONTROL!

one of the biggest voices opera has ever seen...

That was perfect

Where can we find such a perfect Aida like this nowadays ?

Happy 95th Life Anniversary February 10, 2022 To Her Royal Highness, Leontyne Price Grandest Of Them All!

A propria Aida!!! Voz e interpretação!!!! Perfeita!!!!!

Lovely.

Always being imitated by others but no one can copy her technique. Such ease and beauty in singing ❤️

GLORIOUS!!! DIVINE GIFT FROM GOD!!!

The liner notes to the first vinyls issued stated that Her Aida would have been chosen by Verdi. TRUE!

1:39-1:46 = a dagger into the soul.

She is aida, forever!😊😊

wow!!

The final few bars is the most beautiful music Verdi ever wrote.

@funtimesgirl

8 жыл бұрын

+jmiller05....or maybe La Vergine degli angeli from La Forza Delstino ...

@jmiller05

8 жыл бұрын

+Nairatmya perhaps that too. I just find the music here so profound and with a such a sense if longing on the final bars. so visceral.

@vettegaddia6234

8 жыл бұрын

+jmiller05 That's a bold statement although it is very beautiful. But what about the prelude to La Traviata? And"La vergine degli angeli" from La Forza del Destino.

@jmiller05

8 жыл бұрын

Personal taste of course. Verdi's music has indeed glorious moments of music (Traviata prelude, La vergine, Ave Maria from Otello), but I feel all the melancholy in those dwindling few bars at the end of this aria. Music at its finest when you don't even need to explain or analyse it :)

@vettegaddia6234

8 жыл бұрын

jmiller05 The first time I heard Price sing "Retorna Vicitor" in a studio recording, i was blown away. And the way she sang the final lines of the aria is the most beautiful I've ever heard. Most ppl prefer Aida's other big aria "O patria mia". But I prefer "Retorna Vicitor". There are so many changes of mood and nuances.

She sings this aria like it's nothing. La stupenda.

Perfect Aida! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾🥰

Di artiste così ne nasce una ogni trecento anni, se ne nasce....

WOW absolutely amazing!!! BRAVA DIVA

I want to see her 1958 or 1962 Ritorna Vincitor to go with those other-worldly O Patria Mia I've been listening to.

As someone who has sung The High Priestess in productions of 'Aida', I totally second that.

The best Aida is Price!

@elainecristinaneri7422

6 жыл бұрын

James Vandel i agree

@daniel_5606

4 жыл бұрын

Tebaldi

@edwardamosbrandwein3583

3 жыл бұрын

Is this from "THE BELL TELEPHONE HOUR?"

@M.Stabile

3 жыл бұрын

Callas

Stunning!

Sooo beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Happy Birthday, Leontyce Price!

I like her beautiful timber, her dramatic intensity fits perfectly well with this demanding aria.

I _cain't_ understand a lick, but guess what? This is what can happen when you're *that* excellent. I just love her voice.

Recorded when she was 39! Price was above all others the undoubteded greatest Verdi sopranos of the 20thC.and (for me at least) the greatest of all Aidas. She said Aida was her favourite role for many reasons,not least because she was "last in,first out" referrening of course toi the very simple make up she had to do as Aida. One of the very very few sopranos of the same stature as Callas, and Sutherland. A truly uniue original. Many aritsts are respected,but few loved as much as Ms Price.

Пожилуй, лучшая Аида! Без кривляний и бессмысленных телодвижений своим гениальным голосом передает всё, что задумано автором… Браво!!!

I love she !!!! She‘s owns the rolle !!

Now this is good singing!

Marvelous!!! Ann Petty

Здорово!!!

QUEEEEEEENNNNNNN❗️ I LOVE U💖

Happy Birthday, #LeontynePrice95!🌹🌹🌹

Brava!!!!

Anna Netrebko non arriva alla caviglia di questo, malgrado la sua bella voce....

Un vero peccato, cantante oggi giorno non canta cosi, sichiama pride, e ambitizione per la arte, in qui loro volano per anni, ..e anni, grazie al celo si nato L Price, grazie a Italia per Verdi, io non credo in Dio, ma dopo Price e Verdi, sono un credente!!!!!!! sauti da Giamaica

This is a much more spirited and fighting Aida than we are used to, and with the vocal chops to make it stick. Plus, this is not fundamental, but it's nice to have a black Aida.

@AndreJorgeOliveira1

8 жыл бұрын

It is fundamental to have a black Aïda. As well as a white Mimi or Traviata. And what an Aïda! A true Queen!!

@TheVaughan5

7 жыл бұрын

Does your statement mean we have to rule out Leontyne's magnficient Floria Tosca? Of course not, just stupidity!

@FabioPBarbieri

7 жыл бұрын

I said it's not fundamental, just nice. But Aida's blackness is part of the story: she is an Ethiopian, a southern "barbarian" darker in skin than the brown-skinned imperial Egyptians. I have no intention to start the umpteenth kerfuffle about race and if this does not satisfy you you are free to rant without any risk of being answered.

@BirdArvid

7 жыл бұрын

Andre, what ridiculous crap! The voice and general ability tell us who sings what; anything else is a throwback to a time when people were very comfortable being complete racists. This story is universal!

@AndreJorgeOliveira1

7 жыл бұрын

Well, this my point of view. You can say whatever. Thanks for being nice.

Brava! Not a week goes by that I don't listen to her recording of the aria at least twice.

Leontyne Price is only the world’s greatest living soprano, for all the nay-sayers. She stands without rival.

@liedersanger1

Жыл бұрын

No question.

Black people have such an amazing voices ..... :-)

She was the right Aida. Aida was from Ethiopia so she must be black. Leontyne had the right role of this great opera and her voice was not clean and powerful but also sorrowful. She was the one of the best Aida.

When listening to her Aida, you must concentrate on her rendering and shadows. If you speak Italian quite well since you are a native speaker, good for you.

she's great, indeed, but in this aria there's no high C, maybe you are referring to the aria Cieli azzurri in third act?

@xxsaruman82xx87

4 жыл бұрын

Surely you mean O patria mia?

It'll return...everything comes in cycles.

maybe you're looking in the wrong places....The Greats were once not greats but students working their way to be examples while following their generation of Greats.

I'm here for an assignment I swear

and netrebko! just kidding :-P

wonderful but her italian was good?

@ofelianoir88ku

8 жыл бұрын

+gabriellevampyre to be a opera singer you must know preatty good italian, french, german plus others alweys welcome.

@mvaurelio

8 жыл бұрын

+gabriellevampyre I wouldn't say it's perfect but it's very good (especially when she sings in the higher range of the voice, where she is stunning!) she is amazing!

@edwardwheeler197

7 жыл бұрын

are you asking or telling? I hate when people ask questions but don't actually ask the question

@MarvPontkalleg

6 жыл бұрын

(I'm an Italian native speaker) eeeh kinda, sometimes it's pretty good, sometimes it's more on the bad side (this tends to happen more in her live recordings, obviously). I still love her though

@luigigiovanelli8929

5 жыл бұрын

Not so much, but her singing is outstanding

I swear to God I can't enjoy any videos from Opera singers because there's always this annoying proliferation of KZread Divas offering criticism which is often nitpicky and unnecessary and sometimes excessively gauche. I swear, some of you folks down here, who the hell do you people think you ARE!? Ugh. Further proof that Opera fans are much more vicious than any American football spectator!

@xxsaruman82xx87

4 жыл бұрын

Have you actually read any of the comments? Find me one that is anything like the 'KZread Divas' you mentioned? I really don't think any true opera fan would be ignorant enough to criticise Ms Price anyway.

But Tebaldi in '50 is the best, Price is good but fraseggio mezze voci ecc, aren't so exellent. I loved Price till I heard Tebaldi 1951 or 1953

Quizas se puede interpretar como un deseo, un amor poco edificante,no muy agradable al espíritu.

I don’t like her singing, but she sings very well here !

The voice is TOO LIGHT for the part. She lacks the metal, weight and squillo this role requires.

@jacksongreene3687

3 жыл бұрын

You have no idea what you are talking about. This is esquisite and perfect in every way. Go back to Callas' videos.

@beachfanatic2010

3 жыл бұрын

@@jacksongreene3687 Callas has nothing in common with Price vocally. Callas was a dramatic soprano. I would highly encourage you to listen to Milanov for how this role needs to be properly sung when you possess a lyric soprano like Milanov was!

@jacksongreene3687

3 жыл бұрын

@@beachfanatic2010 Nobody sings Aida better than Leontyne Price. Nobody. Pass any us by with your bias and lack of knowledge. So tired of seeing you post salty comments on Price's videos. Go away.

@beachfanatic2010

3 жыл бұрын

@@jacksongreene3687 Why do you believe the commend section is here and I am able to post commends? CAUSE EVERYBODY IS AND AHOULD BE ENTITLED TO IT! Price was not a great opera singer and neither did she ever possessed half or even 1/4 of the voice to sing this MONSTER of a role. You need to get delivered from your colorism shit and start appreciating voices for what they are and not put Prive is a pedestal only cause she black. GET DELIVERED IN THE NAME OF JESUS: 1). m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/hIqbp6OFhq-ufps.html THIS IS AIDA: m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/rGiqtc57gK7IntY.html

@jacksongreene3687

3 жыл бұрын

@@beachfanatic2010 Thanks for revealing your racism which is apparent from your bitter and completely delusional comments all over Leontyne Price's videos. Price actually won a Grammy for her recording of Aida in 1972, back when Grammys meant something, were based on merit and were very hard to get, and won 13 Grammys from 1961 to 1984, and then a lifetime achievement Grammy. She is the most Grammy awarded opera singer in history. So she possessed not even 1/4 needed for the role yet she was given the most highest honor in her field for its recording? So Price was not a great opera singer? Are you insane? I think you must be to say one of the most legendary opera singers in history wasn't a great singer. This shows you know nothing about musicality or what great sound is, and is some fanboy on the internet spewing ridiculous views on the internet because you prefer Callas' harsh and wobbly instrument, oh and because she's white. Do you want to know how many Grammys Callas won from actual recordings? *ZERO* The only Grammys she won, were 2, and they were lifetime achivement honors. She was never the best technically and her voice was not beautiful, and it seems many others agree because she wasn't close to Price's acclaim. Her voice was deterioating before she was even 40, compared to Leontyne singing just as good at 60 as she did in her 30's. I still wouldn't dare say she wasn't a great opera singer, because she was, tackling all types of roles but she was imperfect and clearly not on the level of Price's technical excellence and beauty. So again, go away, and get lost because clearly you are out of your depth.

Beautiful voice, at times inspired, but not the best. In the lyrical section, for instance, she distorts musical structure by overemphasizing the last note of the phrase (as well as too much of the 'r'!). The legato is often smudged. The problem with her chest voice isn't the voice, per se, but that she leans on it and doesn't let it vibrate naturally, and so it sticks out. And often she doesn't exactly follow the note values in the section starting "chi dissi"

@silvanero

4 жыл бұрын

ghostofyeats Wow!!! Aren’t YOU the authority of singing, legato, chest voice and how Ms. Price uses her voice!! How many opera houses have you opened or performed at, concert halls, recordings, doctorates and accolades have you received??? It’s easy for people to criticize, but until you’ve sung or lived in her shoes, you couldn’t truly understand all the stress and hardships she endured to become the Worldfamous sucessful Assoluta Diva she became!!! Bravissima Leontyne!!!

VOICE, VOICE VOICE VOICE....CONTROL!