A American soprano Jessye Norman (born 15 September 1945) is one of the virtually all admired contemporary opera singers and recitalists. The confessedly dramatic soprano sustaining a majestic stage presence, Norman is associated around particular with a roles of Aïda, Cassandra, Alceste, & Leonora inside Fidelio.

Norman was natural around Augusta, Georgia around the personal of amateur musicians; her mother the piano player, her father the singer in a local choir.

Norman received the scholarship to Howard University, graduating inside 1967 by using the degree in music. A resulting season, she won an international music competition around Munich. She processed her operatic debut witharound 1969 when Elisabeth in Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser at the Berlin State Opera, & around subsequent years performed using various German and Italian opera corporations. She returned to the America to produce her agent concert debut at Lincoln Center in 1973.

Norman processed her debut inside 1983 at a Metropolitan Opera in Berlioz's Les Troyens in a production which marked a company's Centesimal day of remembrance year.

Additionally to her operatic performances, Norman gives regular recitals, singing arias, Lieder, and spirituals. She has premiered a song period woman.life.song by composer Judith Weir, a function licensed for her by Carnegie Hall, with texts by Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Norman recently likewise performed the choice of sacred music of Duke Ellington. She too recorded the jazz album, Jessye Norman Sings Michel Legrand.