Henry Price III (born October 18, 1945, in Oakland, California) is a well-known American operatictenor, who was a pupil of the tenor Eugene Conley. He made his formal debut with the Goldovsky Opera Theater in 1970, as Alfredo Germont in La traviata.
Dr. Price appeared with opera companies throughout North America, and, from 1982 to 1988, was resident tenor with the state operas in Mainz, Germany, and Linz, Austria. In 1993, he joined the faculty of Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, where he was Professor of Voice and Opera until his retirement in 2018.[1]
The singing-actor is perhaps best known for his national telecasts opposite Sills: La traviata (from Wolf Trap Opera Company, 1976), Il barbiere di Siviglia (City Opera, 1976), Manon (City Opera, 1977) and Il turco in Italia (City Opera, 1978). Their EMI recording of Die lustige Witwe (in English translation, 1978) won a Grammy Award. In 1978, he also appeared in the televised Vanessa (with Johanna Meier in the name part and Christopher Keene conducting), from the Spoleto Festival USA.
The New York City Opera: An American Adventure, by Martin L. Sokol (Annals by George Louis Mayer), Macmillan Publishing Co, Inc, 1981. ISBN0-02-612280-4
