Price, (Dame) Margaret (Berenice)
Price, (Dame) Margaret (Berenice) (b Blackwood, nr. Tredegar, Wales, 1941). Welsh soprano. Member of Ambrosian Singers 1960–2. Opera début as Cherubino with WNO 1962 and at CG 1963. Guest singer, especially in Mozart roles, in leading opera houses. Débuts: Glyndebourne 1966; Amer. (S. Francisco) 1969; NY Met 1985; Salzburg Fest. 1975. Has recorded Isolde with C. Kleiber. Noted Lieder singer. CBE 1982. DBE 1992.
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