Jessye norman

Jessye Norman, American Grammy award-winning contemporary opera singer & recitalist, and performer of classical music. With a range uncommonly wide, encompassing all female voice registers from contralto to high dramatic soprano, she is associated in particular with the Wagnerian repertoire, and with the roles of Sieglinde, Ariadne, Alceste, and Leonore. She is the youngest person to ever receive a Kennedy Center Honor. She is a graduate of Howard University & UMichigan, Ann Arbor.

Great American opera star Jessye Norman with a voice so rich it not just any room but the psyche of the listener, yet her mesmerizing presence came from surprisingly somewhere else

Her passionate soprano voice won her four Grammy Awards and the National Medal of Arts.

This woman has the richest voice - from contralto to soprano. Some say the best singer who's ever lived.

On Friday 21 November, the Metropolitan Opera Guild’s 80th Annual Luncheon presents Brava, Jessye! to salute Jessye Norman, who recently wrote about her life

Jessye Mae Norman is an American Grammy award-winning contemporary opera singer and recitalist, and is a successful performer of classical music. A dramatic soprano, Norman is associated in particular with the Wagnerian repertoire, and with the roles of Sieglinde, Ariadne, Alceste, and Leonore.

Jessye Norman as Ariadne

Jessye Norman