In the years before her untimely death, Jessye Norman's career was winding down and record executives were nudging the soprano to release a number of her recordings that lay silent in the vaults, some ...

Heroes never fade from memory. Last year, on Sept. 30, 2019, the great American soprano Jessye Norman died suddenly. She was just 74. Like many Black artists in America, Norman didn't have it easy.

When Jessye Norman died, in 2019, she had mastered all the Mt. Everest roles in opera: Cassandra in “Les Troyens,” Aida, Elisabeth in “Tannhäuser.” But, despite her formidable dramatic and vocal ...

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Jessye Norman has long ceased to be a soprano: She is now simply a Figure. And for some years now, Norman appears to have been searching for the best way to display that figure -- looking for some ...

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Heroes never fade from memory. Last year, on Sept. 30, 2019, the great American soprano Jessye Norman died suddenly. She was just 74. Like many Black artists in America, Norman didn't have it easy.