Jessye Norman
Birthday: 1945-09-15
Place of Birth: Augusta, Georgia, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jessye Norman (September 15, 1945 – September 30, 2019) was an American opera singer and recitalist. A dramatic soprano, Norman was associated in particular with the Wagnerian repertoire, and with the roles of Sieglinde, Ariadne, Alceste, Leonore, and Cassandre. Apart from receiving several honorary doctorates and other awards, she also received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Medal of Arts, and was a member of the British Royal Academy of Music.
Movies
The Magic of Spirituals
Glimpse behind the curtain at opera legends Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman’s famed concert at Car...
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Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman Sing Spirituals at Carnegie Hall
A filmed concert of two famed sopranos....
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Vangelis – Mythodea (Music for the NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey)
The concert setting of the Temple of Zeus in Athens could not be more atmospheric if it tried and th...
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Die Walküre
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this sec...
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
Berlioz’s colossal masterpiece requires stupendous forces—dozens of soloists, enormous chorus, orche...
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Oedipus Rex
Impressed by Jean Cocteau’s rewrite of Antigone, Stravinsky asked the poet for an adaptation of Oedi...
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Ariadne auf Naxos
Jessye Norman is a regal Ariadne, the mythological Greek heroine in this opera-within-an-opera, oppo...
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The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert
There was a time when the biggest names in pop music believed they could change the world for the be...
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Verdi: Requiem
Live performance of Verdi's Missa da Requiem at the Edinburgh Festival in 1982. An all-star quartet ...
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Spirituals in Concert
"Spirituals in Concert" featuring Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle....
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Jessye Norman Sings Carmen
Jessye Norman Sings Carmen is a gripping vérité study of the famous dramatic soprano’s approach to m...
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Jessye Norman - Singer
This long-form portrait of an iconic opera star looks behind the voice to her youth in the segregate...
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Karajan's Magic and Myth
Over twenty-five years after his death in July 1989, the controversial Austrian conductor Herbert vo...
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Im Herzen des Lichts – Die Nacht der Primadonnen
In 2001, twelve singing divas from all over the world gathered in Taormina, in the world-famous Gree...
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Dialogues des Carmélites
In this legendary production, director John Dexter and designer David Reppa brilliantly captured the...
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Ozawa
This intimate portrait of the legendary conductor Seiji Ozawa focuses on the Japanese master and tea...
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Toni Morrison Remembers
Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison is America's first lady of literature. Her books encompass black Am...
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Bluebeard’s Castle / Erwartung (The Met)
Bela Bartok's and Arnold Schoenberg's haunting excursions into the nightmare of the unconscious....
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Mitterrand, président culturel
On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the...
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Symphony for the Spire
An impressive lineup of international stars puts on a spectacular "Symphony for the Spire" to kick o...
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