Jessye Norman

United States
September 15, 1945 – September 30, 2019

Jessye Mae Norman is an American opera singer and recitalist. A dramatic soprano, Norman is associated in particular with the Wagnerian repertoire, and with the roles of Sieglinde, Ariadne, Alceste, and Leonore. Norman has been inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and is a Spingarn Medalist. Apart from receiving several honorary doctorates and other awards, she has also received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Medal of Arts, and is a member of the British Royal Academy of Music.

For the last 14 days:

25 tracks
16 stations
8 countries

Jessye Norman top songs

1	Vier letzte Lieder: 2. September
2	Falling in Love With Love
3	Fünf Lieder WoO Post. 22 (Ophelia-Lieder): 2. Sein Leichenhemd, Weiß Wie Schnee
4	Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90 / Act 3: Mild und leise wie er lächelt (Isoldes Liebestod)
5	Mais Nous Ne Voyons Pas La Carmencita - L'amour Est Un Oiseau Rebelle
6	Nuit d'étoiles, L. 4
7	Tristan Und Isolde: "Mild Und Leise Wie Er Lächelt" (Isoldes Liebestod)
8	Rinaldo: "Lascia Ch'io Pianga"
9	Je te veux
10	Afterthoughts
11	Je te veux
12	Les parapluies de Cherbourg
13	Afterthoughts
14	Dis-Moi
15	I Was Born in Love With You (Theme from "Wuthering Heights")
16	Les moulins de mon coeur (The Windmills of Your Mind) [From "The Thomas Crown Affair"]
17	Dans Ses Yeux
18	Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492: "Porgi amor"
19	The Moon and I
20	Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
21	What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
22	Les Enfants Qui Pleurent
23	Je Vivrai Sans Toi
24	La Valse Des Lilas
25	Give Me Jesus

Jessye Norman quotes

I would like to see more African-American singers as part of our opera companies. If you take music and the arts out of the public schools, then you're going to lose a lot of people that you might have discovered were talented, very early.