In February 1955, with Samuel Barber on piano, she made her television debut as Floria Tosca in an NBC-TV Opera Company production of Puccini's Tosca, and in 1956, she starred in NBC's production of Mozart's Magic Flute. Throughout the 1950s, Price broadened her career as an opera singeR&By starring in a number of works in recital halls, opera stages, and on television.

In addition, she married her co-star, William Warfield. As a result of the show's worldwide success, Price gained international recognition. For the next two years, Price toured with the production all over the world, including eight months in New York, an extended period in Europe, and finally in Russia. Less than two months later, Price made her debut in Dallas, in a role that would carve her name in the minds of audiences everywhere she appeared as Bess in a revival of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.

Upon seeing her in this production, Virgil Thompson immediately invited her to star in a revival of his opera, Four Saints in Three Acts, which ran on Broadway for three weeks in April 1952. At Juilliard, she received voice training from Florence Ward Kimball, a distinguished teacher, and, in her last year, she gave a strong performance as Mistress Ford in the student production of the opera, Falstaff. in June 1948, and headed to New York to study at the Juilliard School of Music where she had won a full tuition scholarship. Wesley, advised her to change her major from education and public school music to concentrate on voice. After hearing her sing in the choir one Sunday morning, the president of the college, Dr. In 1944, she went on to the College of Educational and Industrial Arts in Wilberforce, Ohio, to study to be a music teacher. She was also considered one of the most talented members of her high school choir. Price entered Oak Park Vocational High School in 1937, where she was quickly designated as the pianist for the school concerts and functions. Her formal music instruction began at age 5, when she started taking piano lessons. Price received excellent vocal training at an early age when she is said to have sat enthralled in her stroller listening to her mother singing in the choir at the St. Leontyne Price (singer born February 10, 1927, Laurel, Mississippi) Leontyne Price was born Mary Violet Leontine Price, to James Anthony Price, a carpenter, and Kate Baker Price, a midwife with a lovely soprano voice.

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