Cover of the NY Met programme for Aida, showing Price mid-song. She is a black woman with an afro, with her arms up to her face as she sings.
#OnThisDay, 3 Jan 1985, Leontyne Price gives her final operatic stage performance, as Aida at the New York Met.
Price was the first African American to be given a leading role at La Scala, and has 19 Grammy awards.
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