The Grammy winning opera and concert singer is dead. She was 74.
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Following the successful launch of the new regular feature The Talk of the Town in January, the team at the box is inviting contributions for a new quarter of operatic potpourri.
In addition to Jessye Norman, this event paid homage to the shamefully obscure soprano Sissieretta Jones—once billed as “The Black Patti.”
They’ll say, “Norman’s back at last!”
Coming this fall on a basic cable channel near you, Ultimate Diva Jessye Norman tries her hand at situation comedy, playing a 30-something bachelor girl who returns to Manhattan in search of adventure and romance.
Miss Jessye Norman (not pictured!) grants what can only be described as the definitively definitive Diva Interview.
The increasingly protean Jessye Norman intones the classic American anthem “Midnight Special.”
Well, it’s finally happened. Jessye Norman has reached that moment in her career when she starts pronouncing the word “costume” with the accent on the second syllable.
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