Leontyne Price #1484

Caption from poster__      Leontyne Price     “ Accomplishments have no color”    Leontyne Price debuted on Broadway in 1952   and at the Metropolitan Opera House in   New York in 1961. As an African American   woman, Leontyne Price achieved many   “ first” in her musical career.     A native of Laurel, Mississippi, Mary Violet Leontyne Price decided on a  singing career after graduation from the College of Education and Industrial Arts, Wilberforce, Ohio, in 1948.Four years at the Juillard School of Music,  with Florence Page Kimball guiding her as she would continue to do, led to her 1952 debut on Broadway. Ira Gershwin, based on that performance, chose Price as Bess in a revival of Porgy and Bess that played New  York City 1952-54 and then toured both nationally and internationally.  In  1955, Leontyne Price was chosen to sing the title role in a television  production of Tosca,becoming the first black singer on a television opera production. In 1957, she debuted in her first stag