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BBC News
Jessye Norman 'thrilled' by Dalai Lama invitation
BBC News
Celebrated American soprano Jessye Norman says she is "thrilled and honoured" to be singing for the Dalai Lama in London next week. The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader is to receive the £1.1m Templeton Prize at St Paul's Cathedral on Monday.
The Dalai Lama to give away £1m at St Paul's CathedralTelegraph.co.uk

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The Arts Desk
Jessye Norman, Royal Festival Hall
The Arts Desk
In Jessye Norman's defence, in 1987, just five years after her landmark, ultra-luscious recording of Strauss's Four Last Songs, she recorded a disc of Gershwin, Richard Rodgers et al. Yet since that recording included her terrifying, ...
Five Reasons to Love Jessye NormanHuffington Post UK (blog)

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Jessye Norman's American songbook
BBC News
Arts correspondent Rebecca Jones has been to meet opera singer Jessye Norman, who, for the first time in almost a decade, will be performing in Britain. She says her voice "is as much a part of me as my own breath, or finger, or eyelid".


 
Financial Times
The Inventory: Jessye Norman
Financial Times
I am a lucky person, my friend' Jessye Norman, 66, is one of the most popular and highly regarded dramatic soprano singers in the world. To become a doctor. I was given a stethoscope in a child's “doctor's bag” at about age six and I loved it!


 
BBC News
Opera singer Jessye Norman on meeting President Obama
BBC News
Legendary American soprano Jessye Norman has won numerous awards including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for Classical Music but she also manages to fit in time for fund-raising. Speaking to Sean Rafferty on Radio 3's In Tune, the famous opera ...


 
Daily Mail
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Paxo pardons a dangling participle
Daily Mail
Did you see the sublime US soprano Jessye Norman, 66, pictured, on Newsnight? Talented, articulate, better spoken than the young royals, she was asked if she considered herself a diva. She demurred: 'One thinks of a diva as someone who is difficult to ...


 
The Gustavian Weekly (blog)
Gustie of the Week: Jessye Flannery
The Gustavian Weekly (blog)
“The spelling 'Jessye' comes from the opera singer Jessye Norman. My mom saw her interviewed on TV when I was a baby [and] decided she would teach me how to spell my name 'Jessye' so I would be unique from all the other Jessicas.