Jessye Norman |

Jessie Norman

American operatic ndi chamber woyimba (soprano). Atamaliza maphunziro awo ku yunivesite ya Michigan ndi digiri ya master mu nyimbo, Norman adakhala nthawi yachilimwe akukonzekera Mpikisano Wapadziko Lonse ku Munich (1968). Ndiye, monga tsopano, njira yopita ku Olympus yogwira ntchito inayamba ku Ulaya. Adapambana, otsutsa adamutcha soprano wamkulu kwambiri kuyambira Lotte Lehmann, ndipo zopatsa kuchokera kumalo owonetsera nyimbo ku Europe zidamugwera ngati cornucopia.

Mu 1969 adayamba ku Berlin ngati Elisabeth (Wagner's Tannhäuser), mu 1972 ku La Scala monga Aida (Verdi's Aida) komanso ku Covent Garden ngati Cassandra (Berlioz's Trojans). Zigawo zina za opera zikuphatikizapo Carmen (Carmen wa Bizet), Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos wa R. Strauss), Salome (Salome wa R. Strauss), Jocasta (Oedipus Rex ya Stravinsky).

Kuyambira pakati pa zaka za m'ma 1970, adachita zoimbaimba kwakanthawi, kenako adabwereranso ku siteji ya opera mu 1980 monga Ariadne ku Ariadne auf Naxos ndi Richard Strauss ku Staatsoper Hamburg. Mu 1982, adapanga kuwonekera koyamba kugulu lake pa siteji ya opera yaku America ku Philadelphia - izi zisanachitike, woyimba wakuda adangopita kudziko lakwawo. Norman anali kuyembekezera kuwonekera koyamba kugulu pa Metropolitan Opera kunachitika mu 1983 mu dilogy Berlioz Les Troyens, mu magawo awiri, Cassandra ndi Dido. Mnzake wa Jesse panthawiyo anali Placido Domingo, ndipo kupanga kwake kunali kopambana kwambiri. Pamalo omwewo, ku Met, Norman pambuyo pake adachita bwino kwambiri Sieglinde mu Valkyrie ya Richard Wagner. Der Ring des Nibelungen iyi yochitidwa ndi J. Levine inalembedwa, monga momwe adachitira Wagner's Parsifal, pomwe Jessie Norman adayimba gawo la Kundry. Kawirikawiri, Wagner, pamodzi ndi Mahler ndi R. Strauss, akhala akupanga maziko a nyimbo za opera ndi zoimbaimba za Jesse Norman.

Kumayambiriro kwa zaka za m'ma XXI, Jessie Norman anali mmodzi mwa oimba ambiri, otchuka komanso olipidwa kwambiri. Nthawi zonse amawonetsa luso lomveka bwino la mawu, nyimbo zabwino kwambiri komanso kalembedwe kake. Zolemba zake zinali ndi chipinda cholemera kwambiri komanso nyimbo zomveka bwino kuchokera ku Bach ndi Schubert kupita ku Mahler, Schoenberg ("Nyimbo za Gurre"), Berg ndi Gershwin. Norman adalembanso ma CD angapo auzimu komanso nyimbo zodziwika bwino zaku America komanso zaku France. Zojambulidwa zimaphatikizapo mbali za Armida mu opera ya Haydn ya dzina lomwelo (dir. Dorati, Philips), Ariadne (video, dir. Levine, Deutsche Grammophon).

Mphotho ndi mphotho zambiri za Jesse Norman zikuphatikiza ma doctorate olemekezeka opitilira makumi atatu ochokera ku makoleji, mayunivesite ndi malo osungira zinthu padziko lonse lapansi. Boma la France linamupatsa dzina lakuti Mtsogoleri wa Order of Arts and Letters. Francois Mitterrand adapatsa woimbayo baji ya Legion of Honor. Mlembi Wamkulu wa UN Javier Pérez de Keller adasankha Kazembe Wolemekezeka wa United Nations ku 1990. Analowetsedwa mu Gramophone Hall of Fame. Norman ndiwopambana Mphotho ya Grammy Music kasanu ndipo adalandira Medal of Arts ku US mu February 2010.