Movies: Jessye Norman
- 2021
Mitterrand, président culturel (2021)
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On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the relationship between the President and artists, from admiration to manipulation....
- 1990
Spirituals in Concert (1990)
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"Spirituals in Concert" featuring Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle....
- 1987
Dialogues des Carmélites (1987)
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In this legendary production, director John Dexter and designer David Reppa brilliantly captured the stark drama of Poulenc’s only full-length opera, which tells the story of a group of nuns caught in the maelstrom of the French Revolution. Maria Ewi...
- 2002
Im Herzen des Lichts – Die Nacht der Primadonnen (2002)
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- 1987
Jessye Norman - Singer (1987)
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This long-form portrait of an iconic opera star looks behind the voice to her youth in the segregated American South...
- 1988
Ariadne auf Naxos (1988)
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Jessye Norman is a regal Ariadne, the mythological Greek heroine in this opera-within-an-opera, opposite the passionate Bacchus of the great James King. Kathleen Battle delivers the coloratura fireworks of Zerbinetta, the leader of a commedia dell’ar...
- 2014
Karajan's Magic and Myth (2014)
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Over twenty-five years after his death in July 1989, the controversial Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan remains an enigma. He was the most successful conductor in the history of classical music. Many of his recordings - of Italian opera, of Wag...
- 1988
Jessye Norman at Ely Cathedral (1988)
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Jessye Norman at Ely Cathedral - Christmastide 1988...
- 1993
Oedipus Rex (1993)
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Opera by Igor Stravinsky...
- 1991
Jessye Norman at Notre Dame (1991)
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A Christmas Concert at Notre-Dame in 1991...
- 2023
The Magic of Spirituals (2023)
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Glimpse behind the curtain at opera legends Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman’s famed concert at Carnegie Hall on March 18, 1990, featuring performance clips and new interviews with opera star Angel Blue, Met Opera General Manager Peter Gelb, and mor...
- 1985
Ozawa (1985)
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This intimate portrait of the legendary conductor Seiji Ozawa focuses on the Japanese master and teacher's career, his advocacy of modern composers and the behind-the-scenes world of the symphony orchestra....
- 1982
Verdi: Requiem (1982)
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Live performance of Verdi's Missa da Requiem at the Edinburgh Festival in 1982. An all-star quartet of soloists under the baton of Claudio Abbado, recorded in high definition audio....
- 1990
Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman Sing Spirituals at Carnegie Hall (1990)
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A filmed concert of two famed sopranos....
- 2015
Toni Morrison Remembers (2015)
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Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison is America's first lady of literature. Her books encompass black American history but live and breathe in the present, rich in vivid characters, haunted by ghosts. Born poor in Ohio in 1931, she now lives in New York....
- 1989
Bluebeard’s Castle / Erwartung (The Met) (1989)
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Bela Bartok's and Arnold Schoenberg's haunting excursions into the nightmare of the unconscious....
- 1990
Jessye Norman Sings Carmen (1990)
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Jessye Norman Sings Carmen is a gripping vérité study of the famous dramatic soprano’s approach to mastering Bizet’s heroine in recording sessions with Seiji Ozawa and the Orchestre National de France. Musical segments include performances of three a...