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Jessie Norman

American operatic thiab chamber singer (soprano). Tom qab kawm tiav los ntawm University of Michigan nrog kev kawm tiav qib siab hauv suab paj nruag, Norman siv lub caij ntuj sov mob siab rau npaj rau International Music Sib Tw hauv Munich (1968). Tom qab ntawd, raws li tam sim no, txoj hauv kev mus rau operatic Olympus pib hauv Tebchaws Europe. Nws yeej, cov neeg thuam hu nws tus soprano zoo tshaj plaws txij li Lotte Lehmann, thiab muab los ntawm European suab paj nruag ua yeeb yam los nag rau nws zoo li cornucopia.

Xyoo 1969 nws tau ua nws thawj zaug hauv Berlin li Elisabeth (Wagner's Tannhäuser), xyoo 1972 ntawm La Scala li Aida (Verdi's Aida) thiab ntawm Covent Garden li Cassandra (Berlioz's Trojans). Lwm qhov chaw ua yeeb yam suav nrog Carmen (Bizet's Carmen), Ariadne (R. Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos), Salome (R. Strauss's Salome), Jocasta (Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex).

Los ntawm nruab nrab-1970s, nws tau ua yeeb yam hauv concerts rau qee lub sijhawm, tom qab ntawd rov qab mus rau theem opera dua xyoo 1980 li Ariadne hauv Ariadne auf Naxos los ntawm Richard Strauss ntawm Staatsoper Hamburg. Nyob rau hauv 1982, nws ua nws debut nyob rau hauv lub American opera theem nyob rau hauv Philadelphia - ua ntej ntawd, tus neeg hu nkauj dub tsuas muab concerts tours nyob rau hauv nws lub teb chaws. Norman qhov kev tos ntev ntev ntawm Metropolitan Opera tau tshwm sim hauv xyoo 1983 hauv Berlioz's dilogy Les Troyens, hauv ob ntu, Cassandra thiab Dido. Jesse tus khub thaum lub sijhawm yog Placido Domingo, thiab kev tsim khoom tau ua tiav zoo. Nyob rau tib qhov chaw, ntawm Kev Sib Tham, Norman tom qab ntawd ua tau zoo heev Sieglinde hauv Richard Wagner's Valkyrie. Qhov no Der Ring des Nibelungen ua los ntawm J. Levine tau sau tseg, zoo li Wagner's Parsifal, qhov twg Jessie Norman hu nkauj ntawm Kundry. Feem ntau, Wagner, nrog rau Mahler thiab R. Strauss, yeej ib txwm tsim lub hauv paus ntawm Jesse Norman's opera thiab concert repertoire.

Thaum pib ntawm lub xyoo pua XXI, Jessie Norman yog ib tus neeg hu nkauj uas muaj ntau yam, nrov thiab tau them nyiaj ntau. Nws invariably qhia tau hais tias lub suab muaj peev xwm, refined suab paj nruag thiab lub siab ntawm style. Nws repertoire suav nrog cov chav nplua nuj tshaj plaws thiab lub suab-symphonic repertoire los ntawm Bach thiab Schubert rau Mahler, Schoenberg ("Cov Nkauj ntawm Gurre"), Berg thiab Gershwin. Norman kuj tau kaw ob peb CDs ntawm sab ntsuj plig thiab nrov Asmeskas nrog rau cov nkauj Fabkis. Cov ntaub ntawv kaw tseg suav nrog qhov chaw ntawm Armida hauv Haydn's opera ntawm tib lub npe (dir. Dorati, Philips), Ariadne (video, dir. Levine, Deutsche Grammophon).

Jesse Norman ntau yam khoom plig thiab khoom plig suav nrog ntau dua peb caug tus kws kho mob tshwj xeeb los ntawm cov tsev kawm qib siab, tsev kawm qib siab thiab chaw khaws cia thoob ntiaj teb. Tsoomfwv Fab Kis tau tso cai rau nws lub npe ntawm Tus Thawj Coj ntawm Kev Ua Yeeb Yam thiab Ntawv. Francois Mitterrand tau muab khoom plig rau tus neeg hu nkauj nrog lub cim ntawm Legion of Honour. UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Keller tau tsa nws Honorary Ambassador ntawm lub tebchaws United Nations nyob rau hauv 1990. Inducted mus rau lub Gramophone Hall of Fame. Norman yog tsib zaug Grammy Music Award yeej thiab tau txais txiaj ntsig US National Medal of Arts thaum Lub Ob Hlis 2010.