Jessye Norman
Know for: Acting
Born: 1945-09-15
Place of birth: Augusta, Georgia, USA
Also know as:
The Magic of Spirituals (2023)
Glimpse behind the curtain at opera legends Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman’s famed concert at Carnegie Hall on March 18, 1990, featuring...
Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman Sing Spirituals at Carnegie Hall (1990)
A filmed concert of two famed sopranos.
Vangelis – Mythodea (Music for the NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey) (2002)
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...
Die Walküre (1990)
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this second opera in Wagner’s Ring cycle....
Jessye Norman at Ely Cathedral (1988)
Jessye Norman at Ely Cathedral - Christmastide 1988
Berlioz: Les Troyens (1983)
Berlioz’s colossal masterpiece requires stupendous forces—dozens of soloists, enormous chorus, orchestra and ballet, a superb conductor...
Oedipus Rex (1993)
Impressed by Jean Cocteau’s rewrite of Antigone, Stravinsky asked the poet for an adaptation of Oedipus Rex. The resulting libretto brings...
Ariadne auf Naxos (1988)
Jessye Norman is a regal Ariadne, the mythological Greek heroine in this opera-within-an-opera, opposite the passionate Bacchus of the great James...
The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert (1988)
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...
Verdi: Requiem (1982)
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,...
Spirituals in Concert (1990)
"Spirituals in Concert" featuring Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle.
Jessye Norman Sings Carmen (1990)
Jessye Norman Sings Carmen is a gripping vérité study of the famous dramatic soprano’s approach to mastering Bizet’s...
Jessye Norman - Singer (1987)
This long-form portrait of an iconic opera star looks behind the voice to her youth in the segregated American South
Jessye Norman at Notre Dame (1991)
A Christmas Concert at Notre-Dame in 1991
Karajan's Magic and Myth (2014)
Over twenty-five years after his death in July 1989, the controversial Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan remains an enigma. He was the most...
Im Herzen des Lichts – Die Nacht der Primadonnen (2002)
Dialogues des Carmélites (1987)
In this legendary production, director John Dexter and designer David Reppa brilliantly captured the stark drama of Poulenc’s only full-length...
Ozawa (1985)
This intimate portrait of the legendary conductor Seiji Ozawa focuses on the Japanese master and teacher's career, his advocacy of modern composers...
Toni Morrison Remembers (2015)
Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison is America's first lady of literature. Her books encompass black American history but live and breathe in the...
Bluebeard’s Castle / Erwartung (The Met) (1989)
Bela Bartok's and Arnold Schoenberg's haunting excursions into the nightmare of the unconscious.
Mitterrand, président culturel (2021)
On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the relationship between the President and...