Moosical Cow

Even though there's many more I'm going to highlight 2 great opera singers who made history.

1. Mary Violet Leontyne Price was born Feb 10, 1927. Ms. Price is an American soprano who was raised in Laurel, Mississippi. Her rise to international fame was during the 50s and 60s. Leontyne was the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera and she is one of the most popular classical singers of her time. Leontyne was also considered to be a lirico spinto soprano. In Italian that means "pushed lyric" which made her perfect for many heroine roles in operas such as Aida which also happened to be her farewell performance. She appeared in recitals and concerts up until 1977. Ms. Price also won many awards such as the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964), the National Medal of Arts (1985), Lifetime Achievement Award, and many more including 19 Grammys for operatic and song recitals as well as full operas. She has many more awards but she is the most awarded classical singer. She also was awarded an honorary doctorate from Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

2. Jessye Norman (September 15, 1945-September 30, 2019) was an American opera singer and recitalist. She was known for her dramatic soprano roles but refused to be put in a box. Jessye had a commanding presence on stage and even did operas and recitals such as Beethoven's Leonore, Wagner's Sieglinde and Kundry, & many more. Edward Rothstein, a music critic with The New York Times, described her voice as a "grand mansion of sound." Ms. Norman trained at Howard University, the Peabody Institute, and the University of Michigan. She started her career is Europe and it's there that she won the ARD International Music Competition in Munich in 1968. This led to her getting a contract with the Duetsche Oper Berlin. Her operat debut was in Wagner's Tannhäuser and next sang in Verdi's Aida at La Scala in Milan. She made her debut in America in 1982 with the Opera Company of Philadelphia when cast as Jocasta in Stravinsky's Oedipus rex, and as Dido in Dido and Aeneas. She went on singing in places like the Metropolitan Opera, the Paris Opera, the Royal Opera in London and even the Lyric Opera of Chicago. She sang at Ronald Reagan's second inauguration, Queen Elizabeth ll's 60th birthday celebration in 1986 and opened the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Norman has won the Grammy for Best Classical Vocal Solo, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and the National Medal of Arts to name a few. Ms. Jessye also has her own school, The Jessye Norman School of the Arts.

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