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Leontyne Price
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Leontyne Price

Soprano

Born 1927 in Laurel, Mississippi

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Neighborhood

Wikipedia ties Leontyne Price to Greenwich Village, Manhattan. A tie, not always an origin

On the map at Vandam Street

Vandam Street, Manhattan: Lived on this street from 1962 until 2013.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

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    Metropolitan Opera House

    1966

    The Met’s house at Lincoln Center officially opened on 16 September 1966 with the world premiere of Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra, starring Leontyne Price as Cleopatra, per Wikipedia.

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Also tied to Greenwich Village