Leontyne Price (born 1927) was a prima donna soprano acclaimed in most circles as one of the finest opera singers of the 20th century. Mary Leontyne Price was born in Laurel, Mississippi, on February 10, 1927. Educated in public schools in Laurel, she...

Born at a time and in a place when an opera career seemed an impossibility for a young woman of what she calls her "great, wonderful color," Leontyne Price credits the strength of purpose that brought her unparalleled success to the early example of...

The singing that Leontyne Price bestowed upon a large, adoring audience yesterday afternoonat Symphony Hall was rich in the qualities that make this artist who she is -- which is to say that it was gorgeous and superabundantly healthy singing, generous in quality and...

Today is Wednesday, March 7, the 66th day of 2007. There are 299 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 7, 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff's posse.On this date:In...

In a Jan. 3 story about the death of former Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek, The Associated Press misidentified a singer who appeared in a concert in Jerusalem to mark Israel's 30th Independence Day. The singer was Leontyne Price, not Lena Horne.JERUSALEM (AP) _ Teddy Kollek,...