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Authors: Jessye Norman

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As Ariadne in Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos at the Metropolitan Opera.

The Metropolitan Opera Archives

 

 

With Yves Montand.

 

 

At a dress fitting with Azzedine Alaïa and Jean-Paul Goude, for the bicentennial of the French Revolution.

 

 

As Judith in the Metropolitan Opera production of Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók, with Samuel Ramey in the role of Bluebeard.

The Metropolitan Opera Archives

 

 

As Alceste in Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Alceste at Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Lyric Opera of Chicago Archives

 

 

Being awarded the French Légion d’Honneur at the Palais Royale in Paris.

 

 

As Sieglinde in Wagner’s Die Walküre at the Metropolitan Opera, with Gary Lakes as Siegmund.

The Metropolitan Opera Archives

 

 

As Kundry in the Metropolitan Opera production of Wagner’s Parsifal, with Plácido Domingo in the title role.

The Metropolitan Opera Archives

 

 

Shaking hands with Hillary Rodham Clinton at a White House state dinner for the Prime Minister of South Korea, November 1993.

White House Photo Office

 

 

With Girl Scouts and students from LaGuardia High School for Take Our Daughters to Work Day at the Metropolitan Opera.

 

 

 

As Jocasta in Oedipus Rex by Igor Stravinsky, in a production by Julie Taymor in Matsumoto, Japan.

Saito Kinen Festival

 

 

As Emilia Marty in the Metropolitan Opera’s first-ever production of Leoš Janáček’s
The Makropulos Case.

The Metropolitan Opera Archives

 

 

Performing Arnold Schoenberg’s monodrama Erwartung at the Salzburg Festival, in a production by Robert Wilson.

Salzburg Festival

 

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