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黎昂婷．普莱斯 (Leontyne
Price) 出生于1927年2月10日
当普莱斯的父母买了一架玩具钢琴给她时，普莱斯开始对表演有了兴趣。她说：「当我收到玩具钢琴时，我似乎就站在舞台中央….从那时候开始我就上瘾了。」
普莱斯在1952年至1954年间，在茱莉雅音乐学院 (Julliard School of Music) 就读，同时也在纽约市演出美国歌剧乞丐与荡妇 (Porgy and Bess) 一剧中的荡妇贝西 (Bess) 。她是第一位在电视上演唱歌剧的非裔美人，但是她还是必须面对种族歧视的问题。尽管欧洲评论家对普莱斯评价很高，而且她在美国本土也相当受到欢迎，但是普莱斯在1961年前都无法在纽约市的大都会歌剧院 (Metropolitan Opera) 表演。在她曾经得过的诸多奖项中，有一项是「自由总统奖章」 (Presidential Medal of Freedom) 。普莱斯在听到玛丽安．安德森的歌声后，也努力了很久的时间才成功。
Price caught the performance bug when her parents bought her a toy piano. "I was center stage from the time I received that toy piano . . . I had the disease then . . ."
Price attended the Julliard School of Music and sang the role of Bess in the American opera
Porgy and Bess in New York City from 1952 to 1954. She was the first African American to sing opera on television, but she still had to fight racial prejudice. Despite the praise of European critics and her enormous popularity at home, Price did not appear at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City until 1961. One of her many awards is the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Price came a long way from that day she heard Marian Anderson sing.
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