Jessye Norman

Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison is America’s first lady of literature. Her books encompass black American history but live and breathe in ...

Over twenty-five years after his death in July 1989, the controversial Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan remains an enigma. He was the most ...

In 2001, twelve singing divas from all over the world gathered in Taormina, in the world-famous Greek amphitheater. Under the direction of André ...

Impressed by Jean Cocteau’s rewrite of Antigone, Stravinsky asked the poet for an adaptation of Oedipus Rex. The resulting libretto brings ...

A Christmas Concert at Notre-Dame in 1991

“Spirituals in Concert” featuring Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle.

Jessye Norman Sings Carmen is a gripping vérité study of the famous dramatic soprano’s approach to mastering Bizet’s heroine in recording ...

A filmed concert of two famed sopranos.

Bela Bartok’s and Arnold Schoenberg’s haunting excursions into the nightmare of the unconscious.

Jessye Norman at Ely Cathedral – Christmastide 1988

Jessye Norman is a regal Ariadne, the mythological Greek heroine in this opera-within-an-opera, opposite the passionate Bacchus of the great ...

In this legendary production, director John Dexter and designer David Reppa brilliantly captured the stark drama of Poulenc’s only full-length ...

This long-form portrait of an iconic opera star looks behind the voice to her youth in the segregated American South

This intimate portrait of the legendary conductor Seiji Ozawa focuses on the Japanese master and teacher’s career, his advocacy of modern ...

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 ...