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Jessye Norman
Jessye Mae Norman was an American opera singer and recitalist. She was able to perform dramatic soprano roles, but did not limit herself to that voice type. A commanding presence on operatic, concert and recital stages, Norman was associated with roles including Beethoven's Leonore, Wagner's Sieglinde and Kundry, Berlioz's Cassandre and Didon, and Bartók's Judith. The New York Times music critic Edward Rothstein described her voice as a "grand mansion of sound" that "has enormous dimensions, reaching backward and upward. It opens onto unexpected vistas. It contains sunlit rooms, narrow passageways, cavernous halls." Norman trained at Howard University, the Peabody Institute, and the University of Michigan. Her career began in Europe, where she won the ARD International Music Competition in Munich in 1968, which led to a contract with the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Her operatic début came as Elisabeth in Wagner's Tannhäuser, after which she sang as Verdi's Aida at La Scala in Milan. She made her first operatic appearance in the U.S. in 1982 with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, when cast as Jocasta in Stravinsky's Oedipus rex, and as Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. From Wikipedia (

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 3: "Thy hand, Belinda...When I am laid in earth"
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Mythodea - Music for the NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey: Movement 9 (Voice)
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Schubert: Erlkönig, D.328 (Op. 1)
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Act III Scene 3: Mild und leise "Isoldes Liebestod"

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Mozart: Die Gärtnerin aus Liebe, K. 196 (Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt Edition 2, Vol. 3)

2023
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Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana / Leoncavallo: Pagliacci

2011
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Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle

1998
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Ravel: Mélodies

2020
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Fauré: Pénélope

2009
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Wagner: Scenes from Tristan und Isolde, Tannhäuser, Der fliegende Holländer & Götterdämmerung

1997
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Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17

2019
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Offenbach: La Belle Hélène (feat. Charles Burles, Colette Alliot-Lugaz, Gabriel Bacquier & Jean-Philippe Lafont)

2009
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Wagner: Parsifal - Highlights

2014
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Strauss, R.: Vier letzte Lieder / Wagner: Wesendonk Lieder

2000

Singles & EPs

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Haydn: Scena di Berenice, Hob. XXIVa:10: Aria "Perché, se tanti siete"

Single2023
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R. Strauss: 4 Letzte Lieder, TrV 296: No. 3, Beim Schlafengehen

Single2022
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90 / Act II: Einsam wachend in der Nacht

Single2022

Videos

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Jessye Norman - A Portrait - When I Am Laid In Earth (Purcel

Jessye Norman3.3M views
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Jessye Norman - A Portrait - Erlkonig (Schubert)

Jessye Norman904K views
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Jessye Norman - A Portrait - Biem Schlafengehen (Strauss)

Jessye Norman153K views
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Vangelis - Mythodea Special Edit

Wb ups22.8K views
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Jessye Norman - O Divine Redeemer {Repentir (Charles Gounod)}

James525K views
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Jessye Norman Amazing Grace

Voices of South Africa Opera Singing Competition3.6K views
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Jessye Norman - R.Strauss - Im Abendrot

Haldirwen443K views
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Leonardo Da Vinci - Obras-

Gonza Ruiz258K views
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Jessye Norman - Liebestod (Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner)

James826K views

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