2 hours into a Jessye Norman rabbit hole - wonderful reminders of why I love love love that voice so much.

Even without being a staged production, I love how she just lets herself get lost in the music and the character. Oh, and that control. I love that everything's not just on full blast. Not because she can't, but because she uses it for the right moments. Oh the subtleties she brings to her performances. *swoon*

@susanlegeza7562

4 жыл бұрын

Whatever she sang was perfection!

She sounds like liquid gold being poured into a gold vase... Spectacularly lovely! Bravo!!!

@user-py1jg6bb2r

4 жыл бұрын

sometime as fragile as thin golden silk, sometime it is pouring golden rain, never disappoint, the depth of her artistry and hard work digging into the role, is top gold standard, what a loss to operatic world. True artist.

@direfranchement

3 жыл бұрын

She had such a great tone and her voice was instantly recognizable. Cannot be said for many or most opera singers.

@MissAliciaH

2 жыл бұрын

you put my thoughts to words

Jessye Norman, you are now in heaven, but your voice remains in our hearts forever.

@stephenbarnett1394

11 ай бұрын

The angels choir would have signed her up immediately upon her arrival in Heaven.

Jessye Norman and Seiji Ozawa....my God...I wish if I was there....just in the corner....

@greenearthblueskies8556

4 жыл бұрын

👍🏽

Somehow it's always the sopranos who get all the hype, but for me it's the mezzo that does it! Her MON COEUR S'OUVRE from Samson and Dalilah gives me goosebumps every time! And that lovely Habanera quite late in her career: gorgeous!

@beab8738

8 ай бұрын

I love her version mon coeur too! Simple melts me everytime.

Together with Callas she's one of the rare sopranos who can ding this right, in mezzo register, thanks to her specific voice. Well donne, Jessye!

Look how the guy directly behind her gazes at her and shakes his head in awe at her brilliance!! That's priceless!

I think Jessye Norman's version, is truly The Best! She has the perfect voice range for this song. The rich quality and the love, she puts, into it. So beautiful~ 🍃🌹🍃

@MD-ev9hs

2 жыл бұрын

BARBARA FLORES: You are SO VERY RIGHT. Well, it does "help" that I think exactly the same thing as you do, LOL! Because to me, JESSY NORMAN'S version is also the BEST.

Love is a gypsy child who never, never follows the rules 💙🌸🌼🌺 R.I.P. Jessye Norman

@Alanpoeme

4 жыл бұрын

your translation is accurate, though literraly the lyrics is about love does not KNOW LAW jessye rip om mari peme hung no superstition 😍

Rest in peace, our beautiful songstress, our fortress, our Queen. Vita Brevis, Ars Longa.

Her French accent is very good!

@DieFlabbergast

4 жыл бұрын

According to French commentators on other KZread videos, her French is perfect!

The heavens gained a wonderful voice in their angel's choir

Everyone who treasured her artistry should listen, now, to her recording of Strauss' Four Last Songs.

@philip3153

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Yes. Powerful!

This is from 1989, Jessye Norman is joined by tenor Neil Shicoff, with the Orchestre National de France led by Seiji Ozawa.

I think this is the clearest rendition of "Habanera" I have ever heard. Every note is emited with the perfect precision which is very, very rare in this aria (listen to admired Elina Garanca, how flat and colourless she is in her rendition available on YT). Maybe the tempo is too slow, which undoubtedly helps with smoothing every single note, but in general the result is amazing. Jessie Norman and Maria Callas are the best performers of this aria. Callas, singing in much faster tempo, is brilliant!

@bravaLiz

9 жыл бұрын

I love Jessye. I love Renee. More to mention, but I will admit that La Divina... Maria C. inspired great singers such as these.

@esuna6352

6 жыл бұрын

Songelosodelzefiro I've found out that Christa Ludwig did Carmen albeit German. She's also quite the contender for those two!

@franciscoruiz4264

5 жыл бұрын

El m

What a sensual, beautiful, thoughtful rendition.

I had the chance to watch this show in a cultural channel in Mexico city a long long time ago, and I've been looking for this for years, cause I love it. It's such a pleasure to see it again. I wish there would be a DVD of this extraordinary artists' performance.

Comment pouvait-elle chanter aussi bien dans un français parfait !Absolutely Splendid!

This is just soo beautiful.. i love the song, its such a wonderful song but her voice is so amazing it makes me cry every time. i wish i could see her in person

L'Espagne, la France, le Japon, et derrière Jessye l'Amérique et surtout l'Afrique. Indépassable...!!!

I love Jessye's voice. And this Mr. Ozawa looked very young and cute in white!

Merci belle union de ces tallents ! À ceux qui sont ici bon chemin 2023 y más allá. Puisez l'amour vous.aurez l'anondance felicidades

I know absolutely no feench and could only read the subtitles and this was my first time hearing this song and this singer and I was just amazed.

Rest in peace, Jessye Norman

Jessye! Jessye! Jessye! Wow.......Rest In Peace

A queen, a priceless treasure. Rest easy beloved, we will listen for all Time

I used to watch documentaries about Jessye all the time on public television. What a gorgeous soul! Beauty really is an internal thing, and Jessye projected it in every song she sang. She was so cultured, eloquent, flawless in her execution, and beautiful. What a woman! In one of the scenes she looked so smug in her fur while she was waiting for her cue from Pavarotti. (This was back in the day before the PC madness when it was ok for women to wear fur and to just enjoy being feminine and ladylike.) I miss the days of yore. [Some things are just indescribably beautiful, and forever frozen in time by memory.] She had a gift that comes only from the Supernal. So sad that she's gone. I love her. I love her voice and her music and her passion, gratitude, and humility for God and for life. Thank you, Jessye, for this beautiful music that is a disappearing part of our culture.

Comme cette video rend nostalgique ! Quelle artiste ! Cette voix sublime parfaitement maîtrisée, cette intelligence du texte...et cette diction ! Quel français parfait ! Et c'est émouvant de la voir au côté de Janine Reiss qui travailla aussi avec Maria Callas ! Bravo et merci !

Oh! She is a goddess! This year I had a pleasure to see her at Southbank in London and I'll never forget this day!

C'est horrible d'apprendre que Jessye Norman est morte. Mais il faut se considérer heureux d'avoir été ses contemporains et en ce qui me concerne, plus de 40 ans après l'avoir découverte lors d'un concert où elle chantait les 'Quatre Derniers Lieder' de R. Strauss, je me souviens de cette soirée comme de l'un des plus beaux moments de ma vie, quelque chose qui était proche d'un éblouissement. Si le mot 'Diva' a un sens, il le trouve ici, sa présence était constituée d'un art sublime et d'une bienveillance merveilleuse. L'écouter, c'était déjà grandiose mais être charmé(e) par elle était aussi délicieux. Magnifique, magnifique, magnifique Jessye Norman.

MIssing her TREMENDOUS voice...

Why Seiji Ozawa is so good to bring his female singers Jessye Norman and Frederica Von Stade at the top of the perfection ?

Energy🌟

Gorgeous. Also the chorus sounds rich and beautiful.

Me recordo quando assisti o VHS dessa fabulosa gravação da Carmen. Era, salvo engano, início de 1990. O tempo passa, mas as boas recordações sempre ficam. Descanse em paz Jessye Norman; você fez a diferença!

nous ne t'oublierons jamais.....R I P...ta voix .....SEIGNEUR

Absolutely beautiful omg !

Gotta eat a big wonderful meal, like a 20 ounce prime rib at Morton's, then come home to pour a glass of 30 year aged brandy, then light a wonderful dark, complex Maduro cigar, say a Comacho Triple Maduro. Sit back, puff bit, sip a bit, and let Diva Norman's equally rich, and complex voice take us away. Now life is good.

Voce di una bellezza insolente, di una morbidezza e di un velluto sontuosi... irraggiungibile

Слушать и наслаждаться! 👍👏👏👏🌹🌹🌹

Damn she's amazing! 👏👏👏👏👏👏❤❤❤❤❤❤

Gosh, She is so wonderful , love this , just wonderful, her smile makes you want to dance.

I love her that voice is pure magic.

Cómo desciende su tesitura al registro de la mezzo, como frasea, como marca el tiempo, con cuánta facilidad mantiene el color, que mujer más profesional esta.

She is so wonderful - a beautiful soprano. :)🌷

Une diction parfaite en français ! Elle est délicieuse ❤

She showed how amazing. This is absolutely beautiful

jessye é diva que marca em seus recitais....

Obrigada Joca. Tinha essa filmagem em fita de vídeo mas, deu fungo.Muito obrigada por me proporcionres essa alegria e emoção novamente.

Adore you Ms. Norman.

Queen. We miss you.

Wonderful!

02:38 I'm living for it

La meilleure Du velours pour la passion.

Perfeição em forma de voz!

"Everything you do is sexy" 0:04 Has both the girls laughing.

AWESOME!!!!

Beautiful Genius.

"Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life. The one who exercises Faith in me, even though he dies, will come to life; and everyone that is living and exercises Faith in me will never die at all. Do you believe this?" (John 11: 25,26) RIP Madam

Wow, I have just found out about this lady today, Incredible Music. I absolutely love this !

I feel the same way! LOL I just found this today! So happy to see this performance. : )

Jessye, gracias!

We will miss you Jessye

RIP Ms. Norman

Encantadores !

HERMOSO COLOR DE VOZ. !LÁSTIMA QUE SE HAYA IDO YA!

The Japanese Maestro Director is favoloso

How I envy the angels.

Thank you, Jessye...

Yes !!!

Jessye Norman에 박수를 보냅니다.감동적입니다.

Jessye could have sung more mezzo roles. Also, her French is excellent. P.S.: The above video contains only half of the aria.

@stefanwild326

4 жыл бұрын

I cannot judge her french, but believe that languages must have been a major talent of hers, because as a native speaker I can judge her German and it is fantastic too

@dmr11235

2 жыл бұрын

@@stefanwild326 amazingly, Jessye Norman never sang in a language she didn’t speak. She was known to speak at least English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Czech

Wow🌻💖

jessy I love you.....the performance of Callas is beautiful too...bur with you I can fly between emotions 😍

@queenofunderland

8 жыл бұрын

True !

C'EST MAGNIFIQUE.

@Scarabee93

4 жыл бұрын

J'ai la chaire de poule!

Bravissima !

Holy moly☺️😳

Классная Джесси! Монументальная Джесси!

MARAVILLOSA

@wTrevorh NONSENSE! This is truly a masterpiece!

#chills 🥶❄️

Lovely. Very good. She IS Carmen

Помним. Любим. Скорбим.

Богиня .. просто богиня

so wickedly sensual slowed down and subdued like this

Canta muito!

L'amour et entanto de Boheme ❤

Lindo

Jessye,R.I.P.

Awesome videobyte! So happy to have found this on KZread! Thank you for the fond memories of the vocals of Miss Leontyne Price. What divine vocals she have!

I need to hear the full version

@wTrevorh Did you not notice all the microphones around? It's obviously a recording session. Operas are rarely recorded as true live performances for albums. There's almost always a studio recording. Hardly a waste of time...this is magnificent work from all involved!

RIP😢

Люблю.

Voz perfecta y deliciosa

♥️

❤❤💜💜

wonderful as music and role. my favorite habanera. one has to yield to the music, not looking for the uptempo flash perhaps necessary in a full performance. I think of ravel's 'bolero ', and how he wanted it as slow as possible. music issound, and good sound has texture, like a media in the flow, gripping and pulling the ear into the stream.

Does anyone happen to have the whole rehearsal? This is impressive.

@scottwilson8258

4 жыл бұрын

There is a whole recording - I had it on a CD in the 90s

@pedrocamenzind6866

4 жыл бұрын

@@scottwilson8258 Lucky you! I would like to get it. Thanks!

@scottwilson8258

4 жыл бұрын

Try Spotify to see if it is on there.

@pedrocamenzind6866

4 жыл бұрын

@@scottwilson8258 I really appreciate this! You're great!