Music video by Jessye Norman, Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan performing "Mild und leise wie er lächelt" (Isoldes Liebestod). (C) 2005 DOR Films
This woman was one of the greatest singers in American operatic history. Her voice and musicality were at the top of any scale of comparison. You don't get better opera singers than this. God rest her soul.
Watching her face at the end of this video, I cried. I had the good fortune to meet her backstage after a recital in San Francisco. She was so lovely, with such a tremendous personality, and I'll never, ever forget how she looked straight at me with those incredible eyes and gracious smile as she spoke to me and signed my program. She was incredible, immense, infinite. I'm a wreck right now... RIP, Jessye.
@@mcrettable Nick, it's normal to eulogise the dead.. Especially such an incredible artist. Ms Norman was adored in life and it is fitting that she is venerated in death.
@@alexanderzaphir721 Voice types are abstract and developed; the human body comes in many shapes and sizes. Genetics doesn't use the concept of "Spinto", "Dramatic", "Coloratura"...that's a human invention called "Teachers" and "Roles". You get up there and do a better job!
.This is, IMHO,...the greatest piece of music ever written. And this is the greatest interpretation ever. I believe Richard Wagner would have been pleases. RIP Jessye Norman....you brought so much joy into our lives..
She is among the great artists across the disciplines. She and Callas are perhaps the only two who can compare in their greatness as dramatic artists (and they sang vastly different literature) RIP oh great one, Jessye Norman.
I am certain that The Metropolitan Opera House of New York City misses Lady Norman. I, personally, am haunted by her absence there. Yes, she was the World's GREATEST Dramatic Soprano...in a class all by herself - the most power voice of the opera houses of the World. JESSEYE NORMAN was one of the wonders of the World!
Let's not get carried away. There is someone called Kirsten Flagstad to whom every soprano must yield. Norman's ratchety vibrato is a vocal flaw in any case. And who did the bizzaro choreography?
Ransom Coates for someone who evidently doesn’t care for the voice or singing of Ms. Norman, you sure seem to watch a lot of her videos here on UA-cam.
@Nancy Lee no she wasn't. It is a post lip sync clip with the sound of Karajan's studio recording around 20 years earlier. She is mimicking her own singing.
You reminded me of Edward G. Robinson listening to music as he went through the assisted suicide program in Soylent Green. This would have been a fantastic music choice.
Very few artists can endure lengthy Wagner operas--Tristan and Isolde lasts hours but it seems to be like an hour long. It is totally 100% emotional experience. I DO NOT CRY EASILY but this makes me weep and weep.
I believe Wagner wrote this beautiful music so that one day someone would come along and perform it as masterfully as Jesse Norman. Both were Masters of their craft, and this performance is a masterpiece.
Sadly, I agree.😢 Now that Ms Norman has passed away, this video will get many views. I'm grateful this was beautifully produced. Even the poor-quality, copyright-infringement junk out there in UA-camLand, will get plenty of views as well. Rest In Peace, Ms Jessye Norman.🎶
Tanta exquisita belleza me hace llorar. La voz de Jessye, combinada con la Filarmónica de Berlín, dirigida por el maestro von Karajan, son un regalo celestial. ❤❤❤
Such power, craft, grace, and passion - I wish she were still here so that, if God willed and she still toured, I could see her and perhaps tell her how moving her work is. Rest in peace, and in power and as a queen, without question.
I am tremendously stupid? My comment was an observation about myself which I used to illustrate how much I enjoy Ms. Norman's performance. It does not mention any other individual, nor does it contemplate a presumption that I am able to appreciate the performance more than another. Perhaps you need to learn how to read with some accurate comprehension, because your hasty, mean-spirited, completely off-point reply makes you seem tremendously stupid.
Splendid sentiments YatesNYC, lovely, thank you! I've seen Ms. Norman at the Met as Sieglinde, never live as Isolde. Also had the great good fortune to see her around 1990 at Tanglewood. Elle est magnifique! Thanks again :)
I'm not religious but I've always feel like great art is the best proof for ultimate existence. And the Liebestod, when done right, is a great spiritual experience.
What an extraordinary delight to be able to hear her rendition of this beautiful piece. Madame Norman will always be present in our prayers and will be fondly remembered for the beauty of her artistry. X
maravillosa versión de de Jessy Norman, emocionada hasta las lágrimas. Y hoy me enteré de su fallecimiento. Pero su legado nunca morirá. Se fue una de las grandes.
Magical, passionate, and unforgettable Madame Norman. If one had to die and go to heaven to listen to this remarkable diva, it would be gladly and willingly done by any means.
"Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life. The one who exercises Faith in me, even though he dies, will come to life; and everyone that is living and exercises Faith in me will never die at all. Do you believe this?" (John 11: 25, 26) RIP Madam
I agree with the below mentioned comment! She represents beauty , hope in the future , nothing will be more magnificent .... in the future, my future anyway. Bravissimo Jessye.
Only Jessye Norman could make me love anything by Wagner….she is literally the only singer that has made it bearable. She was a towering talent-and I am not talking about her physical stature-with a superlative voice given to her by God which she used so wisely, intelligently, so musically that it jumps off the screen, LP, or CD.
She is phenomenal, but your comment seems strangely motivated.Beautifull music is not meant to be a burden, sorry you find it so traumatic when it is sung by others.Maybe you could show the other great singers how they can be more bearable.Somehow I am sure Jessye Norman would appreciate other performances with such god given beauty as her own.Genius like Jessye always has that class.
Well...and did you? It's something to like a particular part out of a Wagner opera. It's a different ballgame to listen to a the whole 3 hours and 45 minutes of Richard Wagner's Opera 'Tristan und Isolde' - and this is one of his "shorter" ones😅✌🏻
Esta area de Wagner es una de las mas dificiles de interpretar.Jessye es sin duda la mejor voz que he tenido el placer de haber oido.El gran Karajan sabia a quien contrataba para oir a Wagner.El mejor duo que he podido oir.Muchas gracias a los dos.Puede que con esta audicion que acabo de oir sea la numero 120.Me encanta.
I remember hearing you for the frist time, I listen none stop for hours, call mt sister told her about this beautiful voice I heard. She said to me I've heard her too, Jesseye Norman I was so happy she was a fan as well and we listen together. She passed in 2016. So thankful to have experience such a beautiful gift such as yours , you are truly missed but your music will live on in our hearts.
This has to be the most powerful love song, aria ever! Before I read the translations, I thought this was abt creation-best version of this song, delivered with an absolute comfortability n clear familiarity.
Dear God I'm reduced to tears every time... I can't look at her face without being overwhelmed, I can't watch her emote the music without it affecting my soul... I can't hear this, without being deconstructed...
Jessye Norman hace del momento de la muerte algo sublime y realmente muere cuando la canta! Es para mi la gran soprano porque además de la voz portentosa y bellísima, de la técnica vocal perfecta, entrega el alma en cada nota! Gracias Jessye por hacer vivir a mi corazón!!!
He oido por otras sopranos este tema pero me quedo sin duda alguna con Jessye Norman gran voz quiza la mejor que he oido es increible se queda uno traspuesto de la gran riqueza que tiene su voz.Karajan el gran maestro siempre la distinguia de una forma total y abdoluta.
I always thought she was truly great when singing in german. Her best works (allthough all are great) are her interpretations of Wagner und Schubert in my opinion. There was something in her presence, her soul that perfectly captured the essence of german poems, ballads and songs.
I had the great pleasure of playing in a small orchestra accompanying Miss Norman at a benefit concert 8 or 10 years ago. I can honestly say it was one of the 3 or 4 most thrilling moments in a 40-year career. A video like this can only hint at the enormous power she has at her disposal. She used it enchantingly. Speaking of the video, I do wish the sound engineers would leave more of the dynamic contrast in. I suppose they remove it so we can listen to this on earbuds or in traffic without damaging our hearing, but so much of the drama lies in that contrast. Sigh.
No words can really describe You Jessey but I tell you when you sing a single tear will fall and the chills will run through Me all because of you And I thank you Rest with love and Souls 💜💜💜💜💜💃🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
The most beautiful declaration of love and at the same time, one of the most spectacular moments of Wagner's work and world opera. This same excerpt can be seen on UA-cam in a presentation by this magnificent singer Jessie Norman under the conduct of Karajan. He, who was always a stone statue when conducting, in that performance almost cried. How many times in our lives do we miss opportunities to declare our love to someone? Let's start doing this with those who are alive around us?
I wrote this tribute a week before Jessie Norman passed away. Life surprises us every day. I'm glad I declared my passion for her while she was between us. God bless you, dear Jessye.
This comment, along with this performance, made me cry. Beautifully said. Does anyone know what this video is from? There's no curtain closing so I assume this is not from a staged production of the Opera.
It's not her own and unique thing. But I love her in it, her meticulousness towards text - both musical and verbal, the way she squeezes it all from each and every vowel, each and every note, with the utmost ejoyment and love towards the author's music, and her exceptional ability to recreate it. Jessie Norman is a unique eperience to encounter. The last diva. The last huge musician on opera stage.
No one is mentioning it in the comments so I guess I will. Those last few seconds of music, where she is no longer singing, but HER ACTING! MY GOD HER ACTING IN THOSE LAST FEW SECONDS OF MUSIC!!! She IS Isolde in those last few seconds. 6:09 Wagner would have preferred to call this piece Isolde's Verklärung (Transfiguration) not Liebestod (that name stuck because of Liszt). In those last few seconds Jessye Norman is transfigured. She IS being subsumed into the world breath's infinite all, swallowed, drowned, unconscious, highest bliss. 6:09
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This woman was one of the greatest singers in American operatic history. Her voice and musicality were at the top of any scale of comparison. You don't get better opera singers than this. God rest her soul.
" schöner geht's es nicht "
Ja!
Frau Wunderbar!
Forse la più grande, secondo me sì. For me the 1°
Überirdische Stimme... überirdische Ausstrahlung... das ist Jessye...
Watching her face at the end of this video, I cried. I had the good fortune to meet her backstage after a recital in San Francisco. She was so lovely, with such a tremendous personality, and I'll never, ever forget how she looked straight at me with those incredible eyes and gracious smile as she spoke to me and signed my program. She was incredible, immense, infinite. I'm a wreck right now... RIP, Jessye.
Wow
She was a titan. That voice. Unbearably gorgeous.
Rest in Heavenly peace, legend. Your talents and charity will NEVER be forgotten.
Miss you dear miss Norman. 😭😭
funny how we all talk about her most when she's dead...
@@mcrettable Nick, it's normal to eulogise the dead.. Especially such an incredible artist. Ms Norman was adored in life and it is fitting that she is venerated in death.
so true
Dramatic soprano with the richness of an alto, and perfect control.
A Falcon.
To be a drammatic soprano you must have easy top notes.She hadn't....
She wasn't a dramatic aoprano. Nilsson was
@@alexanderzaphir721
Voice types are abstract and developed; the human body comes in many shapes and sizes. Genetics doesn't use the concept of "Spinto", "Dramatic", "Coloratura"...that's a human invention called "Teachers" and "Roles". You get up there and do a better job!
Ich bin immer wieder verliebt und es gibt mir KRAFT, diese Stimme unglaublich❣
Dramatic mezzo with good top notes (for a mezzo ;))
It's not human to be this talented
Dsky40 Godess
Karajan+ Wiener Philharmoniker + Jessye = Perfection! Bravissimo!
This is one of my favourite things in existence ever. It's such a masterpiece within itself.
She was such an incredible artist - RIP Jessye Norman
I didn't know she had died 😳😱😧
.This is, IMHO,...the greatest piece of music ever written. And this is the greatest interpretation ever. I believe Richard Wagner would have been pleases. RIP Jessye Norman....you brought so much joy into our lives..
Nilsson outclasses Norman. Always will. Norman was too woofy
@@crazyorganist1609 I disagree. It's not about class anyways. Both artists had their own strengths. I think Jessye Norman has a bigger voice,
Nilsson was a great singer but Norman was an even greater one with a voice of greater beauty and warmth.
About Madame Norman's singing, we reach another dimension, beyond reality and imagination.
She is among the great artists across the disciplines. She and Callas are perhaps the only two who can compare in their greatness as dramatic artists
(and they sang vastly different literature) RIP oh great one, Jessye Norman.
i agree, but , what about Waltraud Meier?
She brought opera music to a completly divine level love you ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️❤️❤️❤️
I am certain that The Metropolitan Opera House of New York City misses Lady Norman. I, personally, am haunted by her absence there. Yes, she was the World's GREATEST Dramatic Soprano...in a class all by herself - the most power voice of the opera houses of the World. JESSEYE NORMAN was one of the wonders of the World!
Probably the best rendition ever.
without "PROBABLY". The pure Epiphany of Beauty.
Let's not get carried away. There is someone called Kirsten Flagstad to whom every soprano must yield. Norman's ratchety vibrato is a vocal flaw in any case. And who did the bizzaro choreography?
Ransom Coates for someone who evidently doesn’t care for the voice or singing of Ms. Norman, you sure seem to watch a lot of her videos here on UA-cam.
@@ransomcoates546 Kirsten Flagstad’s voice wasn’t beautiful at all, it was just loud. Nice try though.
@Nancy Lee no she wasn't. It is a post lip sync clip with the sound of Karajan's studio recording around 20 years earlier. She is mimicking her own singing.
Jessye Norman, my tears flow, what a glorious voice, I never will forget the magic and wonder of it.
Clinging to life after hearing this does seem a bit pointless.
Fantastic comment!
killing it in the comments! 10/10 my friend!
You reminded me of Edward G. Robinson listening to music as he went through the assisted suicide program in Soylent Green. This would have been a fantastic music choice.
Yet the Peer Gynt Suite was just as appropriate in the movie imo.
Love you comment!!
A masterpiece and a divine performance. RIP beautiful Jessye Norman.
Very few artists can endure lengthy Wagner operas--Tristan and Isolde lasts hours but it seems to be like an hour long. It is totally 100% emotional experience. I DO NOT CRY EASILY but this makes me weep and weep.
yep this aria absolutely guts me every time
You are in my heart always Jesse Norman.
You will live forever in absolute glory, Ms. Norman. Thank you for everything.
30-Sept-2019.
RIP Jessye Norman... your voice will live on forever.
If I ever hear a singer as good as this again, I will have lived long enough.
This will always be my favorite performance of this piece. Rest in peace. ❤️
My favorite singer of all time singing my favorite aria of all time. Pure bliss!
I believe Wagner wrote this beautiful music so that one day someone would come along and perform it as masterfully as Jesse Norman. Both were Masters of their craft, and this performance is a masterpiece.
Wagner would have fainted. 😀
@@Alexander_Goosev LMAO!
it's truly a crime that this doesn't have more views
is indeed criminal. Das ist unglaublich!
100% right
Tottaly true!!
Sadly, I agree.😢 Now that Ms Norman has passed away, this video will get many views. I'm grateful this was beautifully produced. Even the poor-quality, copyright-infringement junk out there in UA-camLand, will get plenty of views as well. Rest In Peace, Ms Jessye Norman.🎶
Es reicht doch wenn wir wissen was für eine unglaublich wunderbare Künstlerin diese Frau gewesen ist
RIP Jessye Norman - (September 15, 1945 - September 30, 2019) THank you for the magnificence of your voice and musicianship
Tanta exquisita belleza me hace llorar. La voz de Jessye, combinada con la Filarmónica de Berlín, dirigida por el maestro von Karajan, son un regalo celestial. ❤❤❤
Your voice is that of an angel!!! May you rest in peace.
She soars with that magnificent voice ! How I love to listen to her !!!! Jessye Norman lives on !!!!!
Great performance without any doubt but it's criminal to cut off the orchestral finish
Verstehe ich auch nicht, warum das so ist.
Such power, craft, grace, and passion - I wish she were still here so that, if God willed and she still toured, I could see her and perhaps tell her how moving her work is. Rest in peace, and in power and as a queen, without question.
If my intellectual side ever causes me to doubt the existence of God, Jessye's performance of this Wagner masterpiece restores my faith.
you are tremendously stupid, I´m atheist and Im pretty much sure that I can appreciate this much more than you could ever.
I am tremendously stupid? My comment was an observation about myself which I used to illustrate how much I enjoy Ms. Norman's performance. It does not mention any other individual, nor does it contemplate a presumption that I am able to appreciate the performance more than another. Perhaps you need to learn how to read with some accurate comprehension, because your hasty, mean-spirited, completely off-point reply makes you seem tremendously stupid.
Splendid sentiments YatesNYC, lovely, thank you! I've seen Ms. Norman at the Met as Sieglinde, never live as Isolde. Also had the great good fortune to see her around 1990 at Tanglewood. Elle est magnifique! Thanks again :)
I'm not religious but I've always feel like great art is the best proof for ultimate existence. And the Liebestod, when done right, is a great spiritual experience.
YatesNYC - Well said!
Amazing voice! What a diva!
What an extraordinary delight to be able to hear her rendition of this beautiful piece. Madame Norman will always be present in our prayers and will be fondly remembered for the beauty of her artistry. X
maravillosa versión de de Jessy Norman, emocionada hasta las lágrimas. Y hoy me enteré de su fallecimiento. Pero su legado nunca morirá. Se fue una de las grandes.
Such a magnificent woman. Such a magnificent singer. All gone...
No words can express her gifts just beautiful!! You will be missed!!
RIP. One of my all-time favorite recordings.
Thus the curtain drops over this earth, but her light shines for eternity in the everlasting sky.
RIP. They don't make em like this anymore.
When I listen to this, it almost erases all the other wonderful singers I have heard do this, one of my favourite pieces uf music. PERFECT.
divine! simply divine
I can do nothing but crying.
!!! I,m too !
listening and crying!
Every time I hear this, I'm startled by how beautiful it is.
Magical, passionate, and unforgettable Madame Norman. If one had to die and go to heaven to listen to this remarkable diva, it would be gladly and willingly done by any means.
Beautiful performance, but truncating the final resolution is criminal! Post the whole thing.
Rest is Peace to a wonderful musician and woman. RIP Jessye Norman
shatteringly brilliant. The best ever Interpretation.
"Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life. The one who exercises Faith in me, even though he dies, will come to life; and everyone that is living and exercises Faith in me will never die at all. Do you believe this?" (John 11: 25, 26) RIP Madam
Amen!
There has forever been a special place in my heart for this Woman.
I agree with the below mentioned comment! She represents beauty , hope in the future , nothing will be more magnificent .... in the future, my future anyway. Bravissimo Jessye.
She hugs the music with her voice n body. Wow 🤧🤧🤧🤧
Only Jessye Norman could make me love anything by Wagner….she is literally the only singer that has made it bearable. She was a towering talent-and I am not talking about her physical stature-with a superlative voice given to her by God which she used so wisely, intelligently, so musically that it jumps off the screen, LP, or CD.
She is phenomenal, but your comment seems strangely motivated.Beautifull music is not meant to be a burden, sorry you find it so traumatic when it is sung by others.Maybe you could show the other great singers how they can be more bearable.Somehow I am sure Jessye Norman would appreciate other performances with such god given beauty as her own.Genius like Jessye always has that class.
This made me stop in my tracks and sit and listen. It brought tears to my eyes. I want to get the entire opera now. Thank you Jessye!
I just watched it for the first time. There simply aren't enough words to describe its greatness. Its Schopenhauerian themes are terrifying, though.
Well...and did you?
It's something to like a particular part out of a Wagner opera. It's a different ballgame to listen to a the whole 3 hours and 45 minutes of Richard Wagner's Opera 'Tristan und Isolde' - and this is one of his "shorter" ones😅✌🏻
@@janehollander1934 "A different ballgame" for people that do not have the capacity to feel and understand Wagner's greatness !!
Esta area de Wagner es una de las mas dificiles de interpretar.Jessye es sin duda la mejor voz que he tenido el placer de haber oido.El gran Karajan sabia a quien contrataba para oir a Wagner.El mejor duo que he podido oir.Muchas gracias a los dos.Puede que con esta audicion que acabo de oir sea la numero 120.Me encanta.
Thank you Jessye so much. Your voice will live forever.
4:35 avoided resolution and ultimate mega buildup to explode in 5:00
no better climax in music than this work of art by the genius of wagner
I remember hearing you for the frist time, I listen none stop for hours, call mt sister told her about this beautiful voice I heard. She said to me I've heard her too, Jesseye Norman I was so happy she was a fan as well and we listen together. She passed in 2016. So thankful to have experience such a beautiful gift such as yours , you are truly missed but your music will live on in our hearts.
Elegant. Just elegant.
I struggle a bit with Wagner but this is extraordinary music made into magical reality by a real master.
no adjective to describe what I feel listening to this powerful and nuanced voice. God you should be alive !
All emotions awakened and laid bare....
Perfection of an almost frightening nature.
The climax at the end is a real ride. Ecstatic.
Mit "Isoldes Liebestod" hat der geniale Wagner es geschafft, einen Orgasmus bis hin zum Klimax in Noten zu fassen! JN hervorragend! 2:13
May all the gods sing you to your rest...
Go well, Jessye Norman,
Your name shall not be forgotten.
This has to be the most powerful love song, aria ever! Before I read the translations, I thought this was abt creation-best version of this song, delivered with an absolute comfortability n clear familiarity.
A sublime Jessye Norman ,comvestes luminosas...
Hermosa! La mejor soprano dramática para mí! Que bendición de Dios es su voz! Bellísima!
Dear God I'm reduced to tears every time... I can't look at her face without being overwhelmed, I can't watch her emote the music without it affecting my soul... I can't hear this, without being deconstructed...
Jessye Norman hace del momento de la muerte algo sublime y realmente muere cuando la canta! Es para mi la gran soprano porque además de la voz portentosa y bellísima, de la técnica vocal perfecta, entrega el alma en cada nota! Gracias Jessye por hacer vivir a mi corazón!!!
He oido por otras sopranos este tema pero me quedo sin duda alguna con Jessye Norman gran voz quiza la mejor que he oido es increible se queda uno traspuesto de la gran riqueza que tiene su voz.Karajan el gran maestro siempre la distinguia de una forma total y abdoluta.
Gracias por tu gran talento Jessye, siempre estarás en mi corazón y mis mejores recuerdos
Rip. Oh Isolde. Never has been a better one. Oh Jessye.
MAGNIFICENT!!
Grandios, einfach nur grandios.
Waves of indescribable feelings ... in awe ... in awe...
A voz ideal para essa música. Ótima cantora .
Leonor Fuchs Brasil?
RIP Jesseye. You brought, and still bring the essence to life....
Listened again and again. INCREDIBLE.
I always thought she was truly great when singing in german. Her best works (allthough all are great) are her interpretations of Wagner und Schubert in my opinion. There was something in her presence, her soul that perfectly captured the essence of german poems, ballads and songs.
Her frequent performances as Sieglinde feel underrated. I cannot think of anyone I'd rather hear sing it.
And Strauss- perfection
The Soul of an entire race of people celebrates life through this gracious Lady. Thank you.....bless you.
Bravo, wow so beautiful, what a voice.
I had the great pleasure of playing in a small orchestra accompanying Miss Norman at a benefit concert 8 or 10 years ago. I can honestly say it was one of the 3 or 4 most thrilling moments in a 40-year career. A video like this can only hint at the enormous power she has at her disposal. She used it enchantingly.
Speaking of the video, I do wish the sound engineers would leave more of the dynamic contrast in. I suppose they remove it so we can listen to this on earbuds or in traffic without damaging our hearing, but so much of the drama lies in that contrast. Sigh.
In my opinion, the greatest recorded aria in existence.
Not even the best recorded Liebestod.
Splendida pagina, splendida interpretazione!
No words can really describe You Jessey but I tell you when you sing a single tear will fall and the chills will run through Me all because of you And I thank you Rest with love and Souls 💜💜💜💜💜💃🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
This just touches my heart & soul! Magnificent! 👏👏👏
Norman is superb! That last note she sang in the aria was pure rapture.
Now she are singing to God.
RIP 🌹👏🏾
A truly magical gift offering such wondrous inspiration.
The most beautiful declaration of love and at the same time, one of the most spectacular moments of Wagner's work and world opera. This same excerpt can be seen on UA-cam in a presentation by this magnificent singer Jessie Norman under the conduct of Karajan. He, who was always a stone statue when conducting, in that performance almost cried. How many times in our lives do we miss opportunities to declare our love to someone? Let's start doing this with those who are alive around us?
I wrote this tribute a week before Jessie Norman passed away. Life surprises us every day. I'm glad I declared my passion for her while she was between us. God bless you, dear Jessye.
This comment, along with this performance, made me cry. Beautifully said.
Does anyone know what this video is from? There's no curtain closing so I assume this is not from a staged production of the Opera.
I cannot get enough of this artists singing this artist singing this particular piece.
Beautifully filmed. Divinely sung.
I love her 😍
There are two brilliant women that can sing Wagner with all their souls. She, and Waltrau Meier.
Fantastic. Such preternatural talent. Exquisite.
It's not her own and unique thing. But I love her in it, her meticulousness towards text - both musical and verbal, the way she squeezes it all from each and every vowel, each and every note, with the utmost ejoyment and love towards the author's music, and her exceptional ability to recreate it. Jessie Norman is a unique eperience to encounter. The last diva. The last huge musician on opera stage.
That such a radiant diva could have graced an undeserving world with such power and expert beauty is a mystery.
Absolutely amazing! May you rest in peace Ms Norman.
No one is mentioning it in the comments so I guess I will. Those last few seconds of music, where she is no longer singing, but HER ACTING! MY GOD HER ACTING IN THOSE LAST FEW SECONDS OF MUSIC!!! She IS Isolde in those last few seconds. 6:09
Wagner would have preferred to call this piece Isolde's Verklärung (Transfiguration) not Liebestod (that name stuck because of Liszt). In those last few seconds Jessye Norman is transfigured. She IS being subsumed into the world breath's infinite all, swallowed, drowned, unconscious, highest bliss. 6:09
@@tinyguy YES! Also, Look at Shirley Verrett's Liebestodt and let me know what you think. Also incredible acting and singing.
Thanks. I will definitely have to check it out!