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Jessie Norman

ʻO ka mea hoʻokani pila a me ke keʻena ʻAmelika (soprano). Ma hope o kona puka 'ana mai ke Kulanui o Michigan me ke kēkelē laepua ma ke mele, ua ho'ohana 'o Norman i ke kauwela me ka ho'omākaukau 'ana no ka International Music Competition ma Munich (1968). A laila, e like me kēia manawa, hoʻomaka ke ala i ka Olympus operatic ma ʻEulopa. Ua lanakila ʻo ia, ua kapa ʻia ʻo ia ʻo ka soprano nui loa mai Lotte Lehmann, a ua hāʻawi ʻia nā makana mai nā hale keaka mele ʻEulopa iā ia e like me ka cornucopia.

I ka makahiki 1969, ua hana ʻo ia i kāna hana mua ma Berlin ma ke ʻano he Elisabeth (Wagner's Tannhäuser), ma 1972 ma La Scala ʻo Aida (Verdi's Aida) a ma Covent Garden ʻo Cassandra (Berlioz's Trojans). ʻO nā ʻāpana opera ʻē aʻe ʻo Carmen (Bizet's Carmen), Ariadne (R. Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos), Salome (R. Strauss's Salome), Jocasta (Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex).

Mai ka waena o 1970s, hana ʻo ia i nā ʻaha mele no kekahi manawa, a laila hoʻi hou i ke kahua opera ma 1980 ʻo Ariadne ma Ariadne auf Naxos na Richard Strauss ma Staatsoper Hamburg. I ka makahiki 1982, ua hoʻomaka ʻo ia i kāna hana mua ma ke kahua keaka ʻAmelika ma Philadelphia - ma mua o kēlā, hāʻawi ka mea mele ʻeleʻele i nā huakaʻi ʻahamele ma kona ʻāina hānau. ʻO ka hoʻomaka mua ʻana o Norman ma ka Metropolitan Opera i 1983 ma ka dilogy a Berlioz Les Troyens, ma ʻelua ʻāpana, ʻo Cassandra lāua ʻo Dido. ʻO Placido Domingo ka hoa pili o Jesse i kēlā manawa, a ua lanakila nui ka hana. Ma kahi hoʻokahi, ma ka Met, ua hoʻokani maikaʻi ʻo Norman iā Sieglinde ma Richard Wagner's Valkyrie. Ua hoʻopaʻa ʻia kēia Der Ring des Nibelungen i alakaʻi ʻia e J. Levine, e like me Wagner's Parsifal, kahi i hīmeni ai ʻo Jessie Norman i ka ʻāpana o Kundry. Ma keʻano laulā, ua hoʻokumu mau ʻo Wagner, me Mahler a me R. Strauss i ke kumu o ka papa mele mele a me ka ʻaha mele a Jesse Norman.

I ka hoʻomaka ʻana o ke kenekulia XXI, ʻo Jessie Norman kekahi o nā mele kaulana loa, kaulana a uku nui ʻia. Hōʻike mau ʻo ia i nā mana leo ʻālohilohi, nā mele hoʻomaʻemaʻe a me ke ʻano o ke ʻano. ʻO kāna repertoire ka keʻena waiwai loa a me ka leo-symphonic repertoire mai Bach a me Schubert iā Mahler, Schoenberg ("Songs of Gurre"), Berg a me Gershwin. Ua hoʻopaʻa pū ʻo Norman i kekahi mau CD o ka ʻuhane a me nā mele kaulana ʻAmelika a me nā mele Farani. Hoʻopaʻa ʻia nā ʻāpana o Armida i ka opera a Haydn o ka inoa like (dir. Dorati, Philips), Ariadne (video, dir. Levine, Deutsche Grammophon).

ʻO nā makana a me nā makana he nui a Jesse Norman e loaʻa ana ma luna o kanakolu kaukani hanohano mai nā koleke, nā kulanui a me nā conservatories a puni ka honua. Ua hāʻawi ke aupuni Farani iā ​​​​ia i ke poʻo inoa ʻo Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. Hāʻawi ʻo Francois Mitterrand i ka mea mele me ka hōʻailona o ka Legion of Honor. Ua koho ʻo UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Keller i kona ʻelele hanohano o ka United Nations ma 1990. Hoʻokomo ʻia i loko o ka Gramophone Hall of Fame. He ʻelima manawa lanakila ʻo Norman i ka Grammy Music Award a ua loaʻa iā ia ka US National Medal of Arts i Pepeluali 2010.