Leontyne Price's Birth Card: The 2 of Spades

In the record

Leontyne Price ( LEE-ən-teen, lee-ON-teen; born Mary Violet Leontine Price, February 10, 1927) is an American singer who was the first African-American soprano to receive international acclaim. The birth-card coordinate for February 10 is the 2 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of Leontyne Price's 1980 Kennedy Center Honors.

Kennedy Center Honors record

• 1980 Kennedy Center Honors — Leontyne Price

Leontyne Price is on the 1980 Kennedy Center Honors roster as Leontyne Price (https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/honors/). Leontyne Price (Q233718, Wikipedia “Leontyne Price”) appears here as a person-scope honoree. Leontyne Price is listed as a person-scope honoree for each year in this pack. Honors in this pack for Leontyne Price: 1980 Leontyne Price. Leontyne Price's English Wikipedia title is the same string as the harvested name. Birth date 1927-02-10 is the Wikipedia infobox day for Leontyne Price, verified against Wikidata P569 1927-02-10 (match). Kennedy Center artist-bio date status for Leontyne Price is not_published. The harvested card symbol for February 10 is 2♠. No day-precision Wikidata P570 death date is stored on this page for Leontyne Price. Source URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leontyne_Price is the Wikipedia article used for Leontyne Price. This page does not invent a childhood or a private address for Leontyne Price. It only names the calendar coordinate for February 10 and the Honors years already listed for Leontyne Price.

The 2 of Spades coordinate

Leontyne Price was born February 10, 1927 (1927-02-10). Month 2 and day 10 give solar value 41, which is the 2 of Spades (The Skeptical Partner). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1927 is unused, so Leontyne Price's 1927 birth year does not move the card. The 2 of Spades does not predict a Kennedy Center Honor and is not a verdict on Leontyne Price. Quoted system copy for the 2 of Spades, not a biography of Leontyne Price: You hold two pressures at once and still make a call that can live in the world. You naturally question any belief or claim. Your thinking is balanced between perspectives. You see multiple sides of truth. Harvested gifts listed for the 2 of Spades: Ability to hold multiple perspectives simultaneously; Healthy skepticism toward claims; Balanced thinking and fairness; Natural understanding of complexity. Harvested life-direction line for the 2 of Spades: Your curriculum is learning that some decisions require commitment despite uncertainty. You're learning to choose despite complexity.

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Wikipedia summary used as source_text

Leontyne Price is an American singer who was the first African-American soprano to receive international acclaim. From 1961 she began a long association with the Metropolitan Opera, becoming the first Black singer to maintain a sustained relationship with the company. She regularly appeared at the world's major opera houses, including the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and La Scala. She was particularly renowned for her performances of the title role in Giuseppe Verdi's Aida.

Leontyne Price in the public record

From 1961 she began a long association with the Metropolitan Opera, becoming the first Black singer to maintain a sustained relationship with the company. She regularly appeared at the world's major opera houses, including the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and La Scala. She was particularly renowned for her performances of the title role in Giuseppe Verdi's Aida. Born in Laurel, Mississippi, Price studied at Wilberforce University and the Juilliard School with Florence Kimball. Price's first significant professional engagement was in Virgil Thomson's Four Saints in Three Acts which she performed both on Broadway and in Paris. Later that same year she starred in the third revival of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, and would marry her co-star, bass-baritone William Warfield. She began a long association with composer Samuel Barber in 1953 when she performed the world premiere of his Hermit Songs with the composer as her accompanist at the Library of Congress. In 1955 Price became the first African American to star in a televised opera when she portrayed the title role in Puccini's Tosca with the NBC Opera Theatre.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Leontyne Price (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 8 of Diamonds

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Leontyne Price, and not a forecast of an honor.

Strategic thinking about resources and power

From 1961 she began a long association with the Metropolitan Opera, becoming the first Black singer to maintain a sustained relationship with the company.

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Also on the record

1. This event was widely viewed as a significant moment in breaking the color barrier for black opera singers who were historically barred from appearing on the opera stage.
2. This televised performance, along with appearances at the San Francisco Opera as Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites and Aida, brought her to international attention.
3. She went on to sing at many of the world's major opera houses with Aida, before her successful debut at the Metropolitan Opera (Met) in 1961, as Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore.
4. Continuing her career there, she starred in a multitude of operas for 20 years, securing her place among the leading performers of the century.

Other honorees with this card

• André Previn — 1998 Kennedy Center Honors
• Merle Haggard — 2010 Kennedy Center Honors

FAQ

What is Leontyne Price's birth card?

The 2 of Spades. February 10 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Leontyne Price's year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Kennedy Center Honor?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Leontyne Price's dates and Honors credits come from?

Birth date 1927-02-10 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Leontyne Price, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only infoboxes and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Honoree identity comes from the Wikipedia Kennedy Center Honors roster, which cites Kennedy Center pages. The Honors line is 1980 Kennedy Center Honors. Kennedy Center artist-bio date status is not_published. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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