The set is the first collection of new or previously unheard music by Norman released since 2010. The recordings span nearly 10 years, from 1989 to 1998, and cover both familiar ground — Richard ...

By Jessye Norman Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 316 pages, $27 By Mary Kunz Goldman News BOOK REVIEWER Even in the impressive pantheon of opera divas, Jessye Jessye Norman looks back on a life lived in ...

Soprano Jessye Norman's new CD, Roots: My Life, My Song was recorded in front of a live audience in Berlin. It features her take on jazz and gospel standards. hide caption ...

Stand Up Straight and Sing! By Jessye Norman Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 316 pages, $27 By Mary Kunz Goldman News BOOK REVIEWER Even in the impressive pantheon of opera divas, Jessye ...

Soprano Jessye Norman — incomparable, multi-talented, multilingual — offers a devastating collection of songs which she describes as a “journey from the drums of Africa to the New World ...

Soprano Jessye Norman's new CD, Roots: My Life, My Song was recorded in front of a live audience in Berlin. It features her take on jazz and gospel standards. The effervescent Jessye Norman is one ...

She's best known for singing arias on opera stages the world over, but Norman's new CD finds her in front of a live audience, singing jazz and spirituals. Hear the celebrated soprano talk about ...

Opera legend Jessye Norman and her new memoir of growing up black in the segregated South and taking the world stage with her song. Jessye Norman performs during The Dream Concert at Radio City ...