Autographs of Leontyne Price

Leontyne Price (/ˈliːəntiːn, liˈɒntiːn/ LEE-ən-teen, lee-ON-teen; born Mary Violet Leontine Price, February 10, 1927) is an American singer who was the first African-American soprano to receive international acclaim. From 1961 she began a long association with the Metropolitan Opera, becoming the first Black singer to maintain a sustained relationship with the company. She regularly appeared at the world's major opera houses, including the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and La Scala. She was particularly renowned for her performances of the title role in Giuseppe Verdi's Aida.
Born in Laurel, Mississippi, Price studied music at the College of Education and Industrial Arts in Wilberforce, Ohio which at the beginning of her education was a department inside Wilberforce University. By the time she graduated in June 1948 with a degree in music education, the department had split from Wilberforce and become its own separate institution, the State College of Education and Industrial Arts at Wilberforce (now known as Central State University). She pursued further studies at the Juilliard School from 1948 until 1952, where she was trained as a soprano by Florence Kimball. Price developed a close relationship with Kimball and continued to study with her until Kimball's death in 1977.
Price's first significant professional engagement was in Virgil Thomson's Four Saints in Three Acts which she performed both on Broadway and in Paris at a music festival held by the Congress for Cultural Freedom in 1952. While performing in Paris she continued her education through studies at the Fontainebleau School. Later that same year she starred as Bess in the third revival of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, a production which she remained with through the end of 1954 for performances throughout the United States (including a Broadway run), and on two tours to Europe. She married her co-star, bass-baritone William Warfield who portrayed Porgy, just prior to beginning the first European portion of the tour in 1952. They later divorced in 1973.
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Current items with a signature of Leontyne Price

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Picture	Item Title	Price	Store
	Leontyne Price Signed Autographed Return to Carnegie Hall (CD 1996)	£40.22

Traded items with a signature of Leontyne Price

The most expensive item with a signature of Leontyne Price (Leontyne Price / SIGNED ILLUSTRATED BOOKS AIDA Limited 1st Edition 1990 #299107) was sold in June 2025 for £233.83 while the cheapest item (american soprano LEONTYNE PRICE signed RCA RECORDS 10 x 8 PHOTOCARD) found a new owner for £1.04 in November 2014. The month with the most items sold (2) was January 2013 with an average selling price of £8.78 for an autographed item of Leontyne Price. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in April 2021 with £200.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £3.01 was November 2014. In average, an autographed item from Leontyne Price is worth £44.28.

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Picture	Item Title	Price	Store
	*SIGNED* The Essential LEONTYNE PRICE 11 CD & Book Set BMG - LC0316 Opera Singer	£101.84
	AUTOGRAPHED 1960s MINT-EXC LEONTYNE PRICE La Forza Del Destino LP33	£109.61
	AUTOGRAPHED 1960s MINT-EXC LEONTYNE PRICE La Forza Del Destino LP33	£112.67
	AUTOGRAPHED Opera Programme 61 Aida Ettore Bastianini Leontyne Price Jon Vickers	£59.99
	AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO OF OPERA SINGER Leontyne Price soprano as Aida	£63.00
	AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO OF OPERA SINGER Leontyne Price soprano RCA Promo card	£17.99
	Leontyne Price - OPERA - large photo - original signed	£148.50
	Leontyne Price Autograph Vinyl Record Arias	£71.56
	Leontyne Price Signed 11-CD Box Set – The Essential Collection + Booklet	£79.55
	Leontyne Price Signed 11-CD Box Set – The Essential Collection + Booklet	£78.99
	Leontyne Price Signed 11-CD Box Set – The Essential Collection + Booklet	£79.51
	Leontyne Price signed album	£22.33
	Leontyne Price SIGNED Soprano Opera Legendary Autograph Rare Photo 10x8	£24.99
	Opera Autographs, Leontyne Price, American Spinto Soprano signed photograph	£22.40
	Verdi Leontyne Price, Aida RCA Red Seal LSC-3275 signed by Leontyne Price inscr	£44.28