The opera was televised nationally by the Public Broadcasting Service.Īfter Miss Price’s third-act aria, ″O, Patria Mia,″ which begins, ″Oh, my country, I shall never see you again,″ the audience stopped the opera with a four-minute ovation. It was Miss Price’s fourth performance this season in the title role of Verdi’s story of the daughter of the king of Ethiopia held captive in Egypt. Miss Price, 57, acclaimed as one of the century’s leading Verdi sopranos, will continue to perform concerts and recitals, a practice followed by many opera singers, enabling them to choose songs best suited to their voices. During a performance in which she hit all the high notes squarely and held them beautifully, the audience at one point stopped her for a four-minute ovation. Her finale on Thursday, her 193rd performance at the Metropolitan Opera, came 24 years to the month after her debut there at age 33. NEW YORK (AP) _ Soprano Leontyne Price, the first American black operatic superstar, bid farewell to her opera career with a glowing performance in ″Aida,″ long one of her finest roles.
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