Leontyne Price - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	10-February-1927
Place of Birth	Laurel (Jones County, Mississippi, United States of America)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Mary Violet Leontyne Price, Price, Leontyne, Mary Leontyne Price
Profession	Singer, Actor
Mary Violet Leontyne Price is an American soprano. Born and raised in Laurel, Mississippi, she rose to international acclaim in the 1950s and 1960s, and was one of the first African Americans to become a leading artist at the Metropolitan Opera. One critic characterized Price's voice as "vibrant", "soaring" and "a Price beyond pearls", as well as "genuinely buttery, carefully produced but firmly under control", with phrases that "took on a seductive sinuousness." Time magazine called her voice "Rich, supple and shining, it was in its prime capable of effortlessly soaring from a smoky mezzo to the pure soprano gold of a perfectly spun high C." A lirico spinto soprano, she was considered especially well suited to the roles of Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini, as well as several in operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. After her retirement from the opera stage in 1985, she continued to appear in recitals and orchestral concerts for another 12 years. Among her many honors are the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Spingarn Medal, the Kennedy Center Honors, the National Medal of Arts, numerous honorary degrees, and nineteen Grammy Awards, 13 for operatic or song recitals, five for full operas, and a special Lifetime Achievement Award in 1989, more than any other classical singer. In October 2008, she was one of the recipients of the first Opera Honors given by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Awards by Leontyne Price

Check all the awards nominated and won by Leontyne Price.

1988

Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

1984

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Classical Music or Dance Programming

Honored for : In Performance At The White House

(An Evening of Sprituals and Gospel Music)

Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Classical Music or Dance Programming	In Performance At The White House An Evening of Sprituals and Gospel Music

1983

Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo

Honored for : Leontyne Price & Marilyn Horne In Concert At The Met

Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance - Variety Or Music Program

Honored for : Live from Lincoln Center

(Leontyne Price, Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic)

Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance - Variety Or Music Program	Live from Lincoln Center Leontyne Price, Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic
Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo	Leontyne Price & Marilyn Horne In Concert At The Met
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Classical Program - Performing Arts	In Concert at the Met: Price, Horne, Levine

1982

Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo

Honored for : Leontyne Price Sings Verdi

Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo	Leontyne Price Sings Verdi

1980

Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo

Honored for : Prima Donna, Vol. 5 - Great Soprano Arias From Handel To Britten

Kennedy Center Honors

Nominations 1980 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo	Prima Donna, Vol. 5 - Great Soprano Arias From Handel To Britten

1974

Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo

Honored for : Leontyne Price Sings Richard Strauss

(Artist)

Nominations 1974 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo	Leontyne Price Sings Richard Strauss

1973

Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo

Honored for : Puccini Heroines

(Artist)

Nominations 1973 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo	Puccini Heroines

1971

Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo

Honored for : Leontyne Price Sings Robert Schumann

(Artist)

Nominations 1971 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo	Leontyne Price Sings Robert Schumann

1969

Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo

Honored for : Leontyne Price Sings Barber

(Artist)

Nominations 1969 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo	Leontyne Price Sings Barber

1967

Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo

Honored for : Prima Donna, Volume 2

(Artist)

Nominations 1967 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo	Prima Donna, Volume 2

1966

Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo

Honored for : Prima Donna (Works Of Barber, Purcell, Etc.)

Nominations 1966 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo	Prima Donna (Works Of Barber, Purcell, Etc.)

1965

Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo

Honored for : Strauss: Salome (Dance Of The Seven Veils, Interlude, Final Scene)/The Egyptian Helen (Awakening Scene)

(Artist)

Nominations 1965 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo	Strauss: Salome (Dance Of The Seven Veils, Interlude, Final Scene)/The Egyptian Helen (Awakening Scene)

1964

Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo	Honored for : El Amor Brujo / Les Nuits D'Été

1963

Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo

Honored for : Porgy and Bess (highlights) (RCA Victor Orchestra & Chorus feat. conductor: Skitch Henderson)

Nominations 1963 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo	Porgy and Bess (highlights) (RCA Victor Orchestra & Chorus feat. conductor: Skitch Henderson)

1960

Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo

Honored for : A Program of Song - Leontyne Price Recital

(Artist)

Nominations 1960 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best New Artist
Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo	A Program of Song - Leontyne Price Recital

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