Jessye Norman Movies
- 2023
The Magic of Spirituals
The Magic of Spirituals02023HD
Glimpse behind the curtain at opera legends Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman’s famed concert at Carnegie Hall on March 18, 1990, featuring performanc...
- 1990
Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman Sing Spirituals at Carnegie Hall
Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman Sing Spirituals at Carnegie Hall01990HD
A filmed concert of two famed sopranos.
- 2002
Vangelis – Mythodea (Music for the NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey)
Vangelis – Mythodea (Music for the NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey)6.82002HD
The concert setting of the Temple of Zeus in Athens could not be more atmospheric if it tried and those cosmic and Hellenic artefact images projected...
- 1990
Die Walküre
Die Walküre81990HD
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this second opera in Wagner’s Ring cycle. Hildegard Behren...
- 1988
Jessye Norman at Ely Cathedral
Jessye Norman at Ely Cathedral01988HD
Jessye Norman at Ely Cathedral - Christmastide 1988
- 1983
Berlioz: Les Troyens
Berlioz: Les Troyens01983HD
Berlioz’s colossal masterpiece requires stupendous forces—dozens of soloists, enormous chorus, orchestra and ballet, a superb conductor who understand...
- 1993
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus Rex01993HD
Impressed by Jean Cocteau’s rewrite of Antigone, Stravinsky asked the poet for an adaptation of Oedipus Rex. The resulting libretto brings together th...
- 1988
Ariadne auf Naxos
Ariadne auf Naxos01988HD
Jessye Norman is a regal Ariadne, the mythological Greek heroine in this opera-within-an-opera, opposite the passionate Bacchus of the great James Kin...
- 1988
The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert
The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert101988HD
There was a time when the biggest names in pop music believed they could change the world for the better. Faced with the intolerance and excesses of t...
- 1982
Verdi: Requiem
Verdi: Requiem01982HD
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, rec...
- 1990
Spirituals in Concert
Spirituals in Concert01990HD
"Spirituals in Concert" featuring Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle.
- 1990
Jessye Norman Sings Carmen
Jessye Norman Sings Carmen01990HD
Jessye Norman Sings Carmen is a gripping vérité study of the famous dramatic soprano’s approach to mastering Bizet’s heroine in recording sessions wit...
- 1987
Jessye Norman - Singer
Jessye Norman - Singer01987HD
This long-form portrait of an iconic opera star looks behind the voice to her youth in the segregated American South
- 1991
Jessye Norman at Notre Dame
Jessye Norman at Notre Dame01991HD
A Christmas Concert at Notre-Dame in 1991
- 2014
Karajan's Magic and Myth
Karajan's Magic and Myth02014HD
Over twenty-five years after his death in July 1989, the controversial Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan remains an enigma. He was the most succe...
- 2002
Im Herzen des Lichts – Die Nacht der Primadonnen
Im Herzen des Lichts – Die Nacht der Primadonnen02002HD
- 1987
Dialogues des Carmélites
Dialogues des Carmélites01987HD
In this legendary production, director John Dexter and designer David Reppa brilliantly captured the stark drama of Poulenc’s only full-length opera,...
- 1985
Ozawa
Ozawa91985HD
This intimate portrait of the legendary conductor Seiji Ozawa focuses on the Japanese master and teacher's career, his advocacy of modern composers an...
- 2015
Toni Morrison Remembers
Toni Morrison Remembers02015HD
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...
- 1989
Bluebeard’s Castle / Erwartung (The Met)
Bluebeard’s Castle / Erwartung (The Met)01989HD
Bela Bartok's and Arnold Schoenberg's haunting excursions into the nightmare of the unconscious.