Margaret Price

THE WELSH SOPRANO DAME

MARGARET PRICE

was one of the most

beloved singers of
her generation

was known for the clear beauty of

her voice and the modest eloquence
of her interpretations.
 1941

Margaret Price was born

to a musical family in
Blackwood, between
Tredegar and Cardiff.
TRINITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC IN
LONDON

Margaret Berenice
Price studied with
Charles Kennedy
Scott
for four years..
AMBROSIAN SINGERS 1961
WELSH NATIONAL OPERA

Price began her career as a mezzo-soprano,

making her operatic debut in 1962 as
Cherubino in Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro”
at the Welsh National Opera.
THE AUDIENCE RECOGNITION

Margaret Price
as Princess Eboli

Margaret Price as a Cherubino

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Giuseppe Verdi

It was these two composers, if not these parts, with whom she
became most closely associated.
James Lockhart
Scottish conductor, pianist and
organist 
 1967

Margaret Price as Tytania in A

Midsummer Night’s Dream by Benjamin
Britten
THE GLYNDEBOURNE
FESTIVAL OPERA
  LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO 1972

Otto Klemperer
Jewish German-born
conductor and composer,
described as "the last of the
few really great conductors of
his generation." Margaret Price as Fiordiligi
in Così fan tutte
The Royal Opera House
The Cologne Opera

The Bavarian State Opera

Margaret Price as Desdemona in Verdi's Otello
Rehearsal of "Otello" by Giuseppe Verdi, directed by Georg
Solti. Margaret Price, Georg Solti and Placido Domingo.
Opéra de Paris, June 1976. 
Order of the British Empire
Margaret Price died at
the age of 69 of heart
failure on 28 January
2011.