Leontyne Price recalls being chosen to open The Opera House. Soprano Leontyne Price recalls being chosen to open The Opera House with the premiere of Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra in 1966.

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Soprano Leontyne Price is seen as she took nearly 30 minutes of curtain calls following her final opera performance of "Aida" at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, Jan. 3, 1985. (AP file photo) ...

Price, now 93, was the first African American soprano to have a major career at the Metropolitan Opera. Critics and fans agreed that she had one of the most beautiful singing voices they'd ever heard.