NEW YORK (AP) — Jessye Norman, the renowned international opera star whose passionate soprano voice won her four Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts and the Kennedy Center Honor, has died, ...

*The family of international opera star Jessye Norman announces today through the family spokesperson, Gwendolyn Quinn, the Homegoing Service, and the weeklong services and celebrations. Elder Raymond ...

Augusta, Georgia, officials plan on Friday to name the street outside the arts school Norman opened in 2003 after her. The Jessye Norman School of the Arts provides free fine arts education to ...

Norman, who died Monday, was first exposed to opera as a child listening to live broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera. "I was intrigued by it and... Remembering Celebrated Operatic Soprano Jessye ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jessye Norman was remembered as a force of nature as thousands filled the Metropolitan Opera House on Sunday for a celebration of the soprano, who died Sept. 30 at age 74. Sopranos ...

Opera legend Jessye Norman and her new memoir of growing up black in the segregated South and taking the world stage with her song. Opera great Jessye Norman grew up African American in Augusta, ...

Watch and listen to recent highlights, including Nicole Scherzinger on Broadway, a pair of Janacek operas and Cécile McLorin Salvant. By Joshua Barone, Seth Colter Walls, Zachary Woolfe and Oussama ...

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... Jessye Norman: Back To Her 'Roots' Jessye Norman: Back ...

"I love singing jazz," Norman says. "I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should be someplace else. It's all wonderful, and we should be open to enjoying it all." ...

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 of ...