A brilliant singer, intelligent, cultured and passionate drama.
I have not yet given enough importance and recognition in the world to this great singer. Voice
prodigious as rarely before in the history of opera, soprano, mezzo and alto!
Early in his career he was nicknamed Enormous Just for her powerful voice and commanding presence. Sing
Wagner, and Berlioz, like Berg, Schoenberg, and spirituals and pop songs. And everything is good and wasting voice.
born into a family of amateur musicians, his mother was a pianist, his father sang in a local choir. Jessye Norman attended Elementary School Charles T. Walker, the institute AR Johnson Junior High School, and Lucy C. Laney Senior High School, all in Augusta.
Norman received a scholarship to Howard University, graduating in 1967 with a degree in music, and the University of Michigan with a "Masters Degree" in 1968. The following year, he won the ARD International Music Competition in Munich.
made his operatic debut in 1969 as Elisabeth in Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner at the Staatsoper Berlin, and in subsequent years performed with various opera companies in Germany and Italy where she sang Aida, The African Giacomo Meyerbeer, and Mozart operas and Haydn.
returned to the United States for its debut concert at Lincoln Center in 1973.
made a sensational debut in 1983 at the Metropolitan Opera in Berlioz's Les Troyens in a production that marked the season of 100. Th anniversary of the company.
In the next decade was followed by major additions to their repertoire as Sieglinde in The Valkyrie, Ariadne auf Naxos, Madame Lidoine in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites, the Judith in Bartok's Bluebeard, Schoenberg's Erwartung but never sang in Tristan and Isolde scene, his version of Death of Love (Liebestod) has been a classic in his performances with orchestra.
In works of Berlioz, Wagner and lieder by Strauss, was a particularly remembering his reading of the Wesendonck Lieder and the Four Last Songs.
addition to his operatic performances, is a distinguished recitalist in lieder and spiritual.
collaborates with other artists: Norman premiered the song cycle woman.life.song of composer Judith Weir, a work commissioned for her by Carnegie Hall, with texts by Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and Clarissa Pinkola Estes, played a selection of sacred music of Duke Ellington, recorded an album of jazz, Jessye Norman Sings Michel Legrand and appeared in the draft entitled Mythodea Vangelis.
In 1997 he was younger personality to receive the award at the Kennedy Center.
In 1984 he was awarded the Legion of Honor from the French government.
received the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy Major (The Recording Academy) and Honorary Ambassador of the United Nations.
His hometown, Augusta, Georgia, dedicated an amphitheater along the river in the early 1990's.
Mayor of Pasadena, California, after the September 22 concert in the "Blair IB Magnet High School, declared that day as" Jessye Norman Day in Pasadena.
has been asked to sing at public events and ceremonies. Among them, the presidential inaugurations of 1985 and 1997, 60. Th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, and the celebration of the bicentennial of the French Revolution in Paris Place de la Concorde, in which she sang La Marseillaise [1] dressed the colors of the French flag, created by designer Jean-Paul Goude.
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