Autographs of Jessye Norman
Jessye Mae Norman (September 15, 1945 – September 30, 2019) was an American opera singer and recitalist. She was able to perform dramatic soprano roles, but did not limit herself to that voice type. A commanding presence on operatic, concert and recital stages, Norman was associated with roles including Beethoven's Leonore, Wagner's Sieglinde and Kundry, Berlioz's Cassandre and Didon, and Bartók's Judith. The New York Times music critic Edward Rothstein described her voice as a "grand mansion of sound", and wrote that "it has enormous dimensions, reaching backward and upward. It opens onto unexpected vistas. It contains sunlit rooms, narrow passageways, cavernous halls." More about Jessye Norman
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Norman trained at Howard University, the Peabody Institute, and the University of Michigan. Her career began in Europe, where she won the ARD International Music Competition in Munich in 1968, which led to a contract with the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Her operatic début came as Elisabeth in Wagner's Tannhäuser, after which she sang as Verdi's Aida at La Scala in Milan. She made her first operatic appearance in the U.S. in 1982 with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, when cast as Jocasta in Stravinsky's Oedipus rex, and as Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. She went on to sing leading roles with many other companies, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Paris Opera, and the Royal Opera, London. Internationally well known, she was invited to sing at the second inauguration of Ronald Reagan and at Queen Elizabeth II's 60th birthday celebration in 1986 and performed La Marseillaise to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution on July 14, 1989. She sang at the 1996 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in Atlanta and for the second inauguration of Bill Clinton in 1997.
Norman sang and recorded recitals of music by Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, Ernest Chausson and Francis Poulenc, among others. In 1984, she won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo, the first of five Grammy Awards that she would collect during her career. Apart from several honorary doctorates and other awards, she received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Medal of Arts, the Légion d'honneur, and was named a member of the British Royal Academy of Music. In 1990, UN secretary-general Javier Pérez de Cuéllar named her Honorary Ambassador to the United Nations. Read even more about Jessye Norman at Wikipedia
Norman sang and recorded recitals of music by Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, Ernest Chausson and Francis Poulenc, among others. In 1984, she won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo, the first of five Grammy Awards that she would collect during her career. Apart from several honorary doctorates and other awards, she received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Medal of Arts, the Légion d'honneur, and was named a member of the British Royal Academy of Music. In 1990, UN secretary-general Javier Pérez de Cuéllar named her Honorary Ambassador to the United Nations. Read even more about Jessye Norman at Wikipedia
Traded items with a signature of Jessye Norman
The most expensive item with a signature of Jessye Norman (Jessye Norman Janet Baker SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED LP Child Of Our Time 6500 985) was sold in January 2020 for £250.00 while the cheapest item (1241 - Hand Signed Piece - Opera - ELIZABETH HARWOOD & JESSYE NORMAN) found a new owner for £2.99 in February 2014. The month with the most items sold (7) was November 2022 with an average selling price of £50.00 for an autographed item of Jessye Norman. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in January 2020 with £250.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £2.99 was February 2014. In average, an autographed item from Jessye Norman is worth £24.50.
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| Item Title | Price | Store | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 1988 SIGNED Jessye Norman Concert Programme Wigmore Hall Phillip Moll piano | £10.00 | |
| AUTOGRAPHED Opera Programme Jessye Norman James King Ariadne auf Naxos CG1985 | £20.00 | |
| AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO OF OPERA SINGER Jessye Norman soprano | £25.00 | |
| AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO OF OPERA SINGER Jessye Norman soprano Salzburg photo Schaffler | £36.00 | |
| AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO OF OPERA SINGERS Jessye Norman Edita Gruberova SIGNED BY BOTH | £51.00 | |
| JESSYE NORMAN signed PHOTO Christian Steiner Shaw Concerts New York | £30.00 | |
| Jessye Norman SIGNED Verdi Un Giorno Di Regno + recording notes Philips 6703 055 | £50.00 | |
| Jessye Norman Signed, Autographed classical cd BERLIOZ Nuits D'Ete RAVE | £79.00 | |
| Jessye Norman Signed, Autographed classical cd Bizet, Carmen | £50.00 | |
| Jessye Norman Signed, Autographed classical cd La Marseillaise | £50.00 | |
| Jessye Norman Signed, Autographed classical cd Strauss | £50.00 | |
| Jessye Norman signed, autographed Dido and Aeneas classical vinyl LP | £50.00 | |
| Jessye Norman Wagner classical album signed, autographed vinyl near mint. | £50.00 | |
| Kurt Masur *SIGNED* Strauss Four Last Songs Jessye Norman Philips CD | £15.00 | |
| Philips 9500 356 Signed Jessye Norman Sings Duparc Ravel Poulenc Satie #386 | £9.99 | |