Jessye Norman
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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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.743 |
Birthday | 1945-09-15 |
Place of Birth | Augusta, Georgia, USA |
Also Known As | Jessye Mae Norman, |
2023
The Magic of Spirituals
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Glimpse behind the curtain at opera legends Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman’s famed concert at Carnegie Hall on March 18, 1990, featuring performanc...
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The Magic of Spirituals
1990
Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman Sing Spirituals at Carnegie Hall
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A filmed concert of two famed sopranos.
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Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman Sing Spirituals at Carnegie Hall
2002
Vangelis – Mythodea (Music for the NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey)
6.8/5
The concert setting of the Temple of Zeus in Athens could not be more atmospheric if it tried and those cosmic and Hellenic artefact images projected...
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Vangelis – Mythodea (Music for the NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey)
1990
Die Walküre
8/6
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this second opera in Wagner’s Ring cycle. Hildegard Behren...
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Die Walküre
1988
Jessye Norman at Ely Cathedral
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Jessye Norman at Ely Cathedral - Christmastide 1988
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Jessye Norman at Ely Cathedral
1983
Berlioz: Les Troyens
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Berlioz’s colossal masterpiece requires stupendous forces—dozens of soloists, enormous chorus, orchestra and ballet, a superb conductor who understand...
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
1993
Oedipus Rex
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Opera by Igor Stravinsky
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Oedipus Rex
1988
Ariadne auf Naxos
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Jessye Norman is a regal Ariadne, the mythological Greek heroine in this opera-within-an-opera, opposite the passionate Bacchus of the great James Kin...
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Ariadne auf Naxos
1988
The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert
10/1
There was a time when the biggest names in pop music believed they could change the world for the better. Faced with the intolerance and excesses of t...
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The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert
1982
Verdi: Requiem
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Live performance of Verdi's Missa da Requiem at the Edinburgh Festival in 1982. An all-star quartet of soloists under the baton of Claudio Abbado, rec...
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Verdi: Requiem
1990
Spirituals in Concert
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"Spirituals in Concert" featuring Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle.
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Spirituals in Concert
1990
Jessye Norman Sings Carmen
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Jessye Norman Sings Carmen is a gripping vérité study of the famous dramatic soprano’s approach to mastering Bizet’s heroine in recording sessions wit...
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Jessye Norman Sings Carmen
1987
Jessye Norman - Singer
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This long-form portrait of an iconic opera star looks behind the voice to her youth in the segregated American South
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Jessye Norman - Singer
1991
Jessye Norman at Notre Dame
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A Christmas Concert at Notre-Dame in 1991
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Jessye Norman at Notre Dame
2014
Karajan's Magic and Myth
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Over twenty-five years after his death in July 1989, the controversial Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan remains an enigma. He was the most succe...
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Karajan's Magic and Myth
2002
Im Herzen des Lichts – Die Nacht der Primadonnen
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Im Herzen des Lichts – Die Nacht der Primadonnen
1987
Dialogues des Carmélites
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In this legendary production, director John Dexter and designer David Reppa brilliantly captured the stark drama of Poulenc’s only full-length opera,...
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Dialogues des Carmélites
1985
Ozawa
9/1
This intimate portrait of the legendary conductor Seiji Ozawa focuses on the Japanese master and teacher's career, his advocacy of modern composers an...
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Ozawa
2015
Toni Morrison Remembers
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Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison is America's first lady of literature. Her books encompass black American history but live and breathe in the present...
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Toni Morrison Remembers
1989
Bluebeard’s Castle / Erwartung (The Met)
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Bela Bartok's and Arnold Schoenberg's haunting excursions into the nightmare of the unconscious.
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Bluebeard’s Castle / Erwartung (The Met)
2021
Mitterrand, président culturel
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On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the relationship between the President and artists, f...
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