30K views · 1.3K reactions | PRIMA DONNA LEGEND: We honor opera singer Leontyne Price, who’s the first black prima donna. She became the first black opera singer on television and the first black woman to perform an opening night leading role at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House. https://abcn.ws/3b54385 | The View | Facebook

Leontyne Price rose from the segregated South, becoming the first black woman to appear in a lead role in televised Opera. This is History | Herstory, as told by Laverne Cox. | Biography