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...ebullient American queen of bel canto, tossed off her last Donizettian roulade in 1980. Last week another of that generation's dominant divas appeared on an opera stage for the last time: Leontyne Price ended a glittering 32-year career with a vocally stunning performance of Verdi's Aida at New York City's Metropolitan Opera that proved she can still capture her peak form. At the opera's end, cheering fans shouted their approval for nearly half an hour...
...smoky mezzo to the pure soprano gold of a perfectly spun high C. From her 1957 debut in San Francisco, as Madame Lidoine in Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, Price was recognized as a major talent. The following year, Conductor Herbert von Karajan cast her as Aida in Vienna; when she sang the Ethiopian princess at La Scala in 1960, one Italian critic exclaimed: "Our great Verdi would have found her the ideal Aida." Her Met debut came in 1961, as Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore; that performance provoked a prolonged ovation for only the fifth black...
...Aida Feierbach...
...chair marks the first time that Radcliffe will have the opportunity to attract visiting professors to the school, said Director of Public Information Aida K. Press. She added that the chair will be granted to a professor "whose work will promote inter-disciplinary thinking in the social sciences...
...suppose the plaque poses a challenge to get it down from its high position, nevertheless it is a senseless act of vandalism on an aesthetically valued object," said Aida K. Press, Director of Public Information at Radcliffe...