Dame Margaret Price DBE (born April 13, 1941) is a Welsh soprano. Price studied singing at the Trinity School of Music in London, after which she joined the Ambrosian Singers. Reluctant to enter singing competitions, Price's discovery was largely attributable to her father, who aggressively campaigned on her behalf to various opera companies. Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority, these are... April 13 is the 103rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (104th in leap years). ... This article is about the year. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Born in Blackwood, Wales, Price made her operatic debut in 1962 singing Cherubino in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Welsh National Opera. In the years that followed, Price would survey the great Mozart roles with most of the great companies. She went swiftly from Barberina in "Le Nozze" to Fiordiligi in "Cosi Fan Tutte".There is a great recording of Price as Desdemona, based on a Paris Opera 1976 performance, released in 1977: Carlo Cossutta sang Otello, Gabriel Bacquier sang Iago and Georg Solti conducted the Vienna Philharmonic. Blackwood is a small town in Caerphilly, Wales. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (baptized as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart; January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was a prolific and highly influential composer of Classical music. ... Le Nozze di Figaro, is a comic opera composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Beaumarchais. ... The Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru or Wales Millenium Centre, a new performing arts centre which opended in 2004, is the home of the Welsh National Opera (WNO), a touring operatic company founded in Cardiff in 1943. ...

Her sensational Metropolitan Opera debut came later, in 1985 as Desdemona in Giuseppe Verdi's Otello. The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, seen from Lincoln Center Plaza A full house at the old Metropolitan Opera House, seen from the rear of the stage, at the Metropolitan Opera House for a concert by pianist Józef Hofmann, November 28, 1937. ... Giuseppe Verdi, by Giovanni Boldini, 1886 (National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome). ... Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeares play Othello. ...

Price is equally active as a lieder singer, equally at home in the romantic idiom of Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann and that of the Second Viennese School. Franz Schubert. ... Robert Schumann (June 8, 1810 – July 29, 1856) was a German composer and pianist. ... The Second Viennese School was a group of composers made up of Arnold Schoenberg and those who studied under him in early 20th century Vienna. ...

Price is a Kammersängerin of both the Bavarian State Opera and the Vienna State Opera. She was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her services to music in 1993. Munich, National Theatre The Bayerische Staatsoper or Bavarian State Opera is an opera company in Munich and is one of the leading opera companies in Germany and the world and has existed since 1653. ... Vienna State Opera (German: Wiener Staatsoper), located in Vienna, Austria, is one of the most important opera companies in Europe. ... Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions, in order of seniority: Knight or Dame Grand Cross...