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Jessie Norman

Mawaƙin wasan opera na Amurka da mawaƙa (soprano). Bayan kammala karatunsa daga Jami'ar Michigan tare da digiri na biyu a fannin kiɗa, Norman ya ciyar da bazara sosai yana shirye-shiryen gasar kiɗa ta duniya a Munich (1968). Sa'an nan, kamar yadda a yanzu, hanyar zuwa operatic Olympus ya fara a Turai. Ta yi nasara, masu sukar sun kira ta mafi girma na soprano tun Lotte Lehmann, kuma tayi daga gidajen wasan kwaikwayo na Turai sun yi mata ruwan sama kamar cornucopia.

A cikin 1969 ta fara halarta ta farko a Berlin a matsayin Elisabeth (Wagner's Tannhäuser), a cikin 1972 a La Scala a matsayin Aida (Verdi's Aida) kuma a Lambun Covent kamar Cassandra (Berlioz's Trojans). Sauran sassan opera sun hada da Carmen (Bizet's Carmen), Ariadne (R. Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos), Salome (R. Strauss's Salome), Jocasta (Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex).

Daga tsakiyar 1970s, ta yi kawai a cikin kide-kide na wani lokaci, sa'an nan kuma sake komawa cikin wasan opera a 1980 kamar yadda Ariadne a Ariadne auf Naxos na Richard Strauss a Staatsoper Hamburg. A shekara ta 1982, ta fara fitowa a wasan opera na Amurka a Philadelphia - kafin wannan, bakar fata ta ba da rangadin kide-kide a kasarta ta haihuwa. Wasan Norman da aka daɗe ana jira a Opera na Metropolitan ya faru a cikin 1983 a cikin dilogy na Berlioz Les Troyens, a sassa biyu, Cassandra da Dido. Abokin Jesse a lokacin shi ne Placido Domingo, kuma samarwa ya yi nasara sosai. A wuri guda, a Met, Norman daga baya ya yi Sieglinde da kyau a Valkyrie na Richard Wagner. An rubuta wannan Der Ring des Nibelungen da J. Levine ke gudanarwa, kamar yadda Wagner's Parsifal ya yi, inda Jessie Norman ya rera sashin Kundry. Gabaɗaya, Wagner, tare da Mahler da R. Strauss, koyaushe sun kafa tushen wasan opera da wasan kwaikwayo na Jesse Norman.

A farkon karni na XXI, Jessie Norman ya kasance daya daga cikin mawaƙa masu mahimmanci, mashahuri kuma masu biyan kuɗi sosai. Ta kasance koyaushe tana nuna iyawar murya mai haske, ingantaccen kida da salon salo. Ayyukanta sun haɗa da ɗakin da ya fi kowa arziki da kuma repertoire-symphonic daga Bach da Schubert zuwa Mahler, Schoenberg ("Songs of Gurre"), Berg da Gershwin. Norman kuma ya yi rikodin CD da yawa na ruhi da mashahuriyar Amurka da waƙoƙin Faransanci. Rikodi sun haɗa da sassan Armida a cikin opera Haydn mai suna iri ɗaya (dir. Dorati, Philips), Ariadne (bidiyo, dir. Levine, Deutsche Grammophon).

Yawancin kyaututtuka da kyaututtukan Jesse Norman sun haɗa da digiri na girmamawa sama da talatin daga kwalejoji, jami'o'i da masu rahusa a duniya. Gwamnatin Faransa ta ba ta mukamin kwamandan tsarin fasaha da wasiƙu. Francois Mitterrand ya baiwa mawakin lambar yabo ta Legion of Honor. Sakatare-Janar na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya Javier Pérez de Keller ya nada Jakadiyar Majalisar Dinkin Duniya mai girma a shekarar 1990. An shigar da ita cikin dakin Fame na Gramophone. Norman shine wanda ya lashe lambar yabo ta Grammy Music Award sau biyar kuma an ba shi lambar yabo ta Amurka ta Fasaha a cikin Fabrairu 2010.