JOURNAL AND SENTINEL Thursday at WFU Leontyne Price to Appear Leontyne Price, soprano star of the Metropolitan Opera, will be presented in concert at 8: 15 p .m. Thursday in Wait Chapel at Wake Forest University. Miss Price will appear for the university's Artists Series. Admission is by season ticket; individual tickets will be sold at the door from 7: 15 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. Miss Price was given a 42-minute ovation when she m a d e her Metropolitan Opera debut as Leonora in "Il Trovatore" in 1961. Critics in England, France and America have described her voice as "the most beautiful in the world today." Born in Laurel, Miss., Miss Price was graduated from Central State College at Wilberforce, Ohio, and received a scholarship to the Juilliard School in New York. She made her Town Hall recital debut in 1954. The following year she was chosen for the title role of Tosca with the NBC Opera Company. She has starred in operas at Salzburg, La Scala, Covent Garden, Verona, Chicago Lyric, Paris Opera, Teatro Colon and other Leontyne Price will sing here Thursday. major opera houses. During her first year with the Met wrote especially for her, will be she appeared in seven different roles. included in the program at Wake In 1966 she premiered the role of Forest. She also will sing arias from Cleopatra in Samuel Barber's new "Amadigi" by Handel, "Bella mia opera "Anthony and Cleopatra" at the fiamma," K.528 by Mozart, "Adriana opening night of the new opera house in Lecouveur" by Cilea, and "Tosca" by Lincoln Center. Puccini; five lieder by Schumann; five "Despite aQ(j Still," a cycle of poems songs by Rachmaninoff; and a group of set to el Barber s irituals.