“Up, up, up is where sopranos are. And tenors. Without that, it's not very exciting.”

From "NEA Opera Honors: Interview with Leontyne Price" for the National Endowment for the Arts on June 4, 2010.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqVu_wlxTzM&t=1565s

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