sometime as fragile as thin golden silk, sometime it is pouring golden rain, never disappoint, the depth of her artistry and hard work digging into the role, is top gold standard, what a loss to operatic world. True artist.
Even without being a staged production, I love how she just lets herself get lost in the music and the character. Oh, and that control. I love that everything's not just on full blast. Not because she can't, but because she uses it for the right moments. Oh the subtleties she brings to her performances. *swoon*
Somehow it's always the sopranos who get all the hype, but for me it's the mezzo that does it! Her MON COEUR S'OUVRE from Samson and Dalilah gives me goosebumps every time! And that lovely Habanera quite late in her career: gorgeous!
I think Jessye Norman's version, is truly The Best! She has the perfect voice range for this song. The rich quality and the love, she puts, into it. So beautiful~ 🍃🌹🍃
BARBARA FLORES: You are SO VERY RIGHT. Well, it does "help" that I think exactly the same thing as you do, LOL! Because to me, JESSY NORMAN'S version is also the BEST.
I think this is the clearest rendition of "Habanera" I have ever heard. Every note is emited with the perfect precision which is very, very rare in this aria (listen to admired Elina Garanca, how flat and colourless she is in her rendition available on YT). Maybe the tempo is too slow, which undoubtedly helps with smoothing every single note, but in general the result is amazing. Jessie Norman and Maria Callas are the best performers of this aria. Callas, singing in much faster tempo, is brilliant!
I had the chance to watch this show in a cultural channel in Mexico city a long long time ago, and I've been looking for this for years, cause I love it. It's such a pleasure to see it again. I wish there would be a DVD of this extraordinary artists' performance.
Anyone else notice how aazong her breath control is here? She sings this at an extraordinarily slow tempo, and still, she breezes straight through points where virtually every other singer (singing at the much faster standard tempo at that) have to pause to take a breath.
This is just soo beautiful.. i love the song, its such a wonderful song but her voice is so amazing it makes me cry every time. i wish i could see her in person
Comme cette video rend nostalgique ! Quelle artiste ! Cette voix sublime parfaitement maîtrisée, cette intelligence du texte...et cette diction ! Quel français parfait ! Et c'est émouvant de la voir au côté de Janine Reiss qui travailla aussi avec Maria Callas ! Bravo et merci !
Cómo desciende su tesitura al registro de la mezzo, como frasea, como marca el tiempo, con cuánta facilidad mantiene el color, que mujer más profesional esta.
Me recordo quando assisti o VHS dessa fabulosa gravação da Carmen. Era, salvo engano, início de 1990. O tempo passa, mas as boas recordações sempre ficam. Descanse em paz Jessye Norman; você fez a diferença!
I used to watch documentaries about Jessye all the time on public television. What a gorgeous soul! Beauty really is an internal thing, and Jessye projected it in every song she sang. She was so cultured, eloquent, flawless in her execution, and beautiful. What a woman! In one of the scenes she looked so smug in her fur while she was waiting for her cue from Pavarotti. (This was back in the day before the PC madness when it was ok for women to wear fur and to just enjoy being feminine and ladylike.) I miss the days of yore. [Some things are just indescribably beautiful, and forever frozen in time by memory.] She had a gift that comes only from the Supernal. So sad that she's gone. I love her. I love her voice and her music and her passion, gratitude, and humility for God and for life. Thank you, Jessye, for this beautiful music that is a disappearing part of our culture.
C'est horrible d'apprendre que Jessye Norman est morte. Mais il faut se considérer heureux d'avoir été ses contemporains et en ce qui me concerne, plus de 40 ans après l'avoir découverte lors d'un concert où elle chantait les 'Quatre Derniers Lieder' de R. Strauss, je me souviens de cette soirée comme de l'un des plus beaux moments de ma vie, quelque chose qui était proche d'un éblouissement. Si le mot 'Diva' a un sens, il le trouve ici, sa présence était constituée d'un art sublime et d'une bienveillance merveilleuse. L'écouter, c'était déjà grandiose mais être charmé(e) par elle était aussi délicieux. Magnifique, magnifique, magnifique Jessye Norman.
I cannot judge her french, but believe that languages must have been a major talent of hers, because as a native speaker I can judge her German and it is fantastic too
@@stefanwild326 amazingly, Jessye Norman never sang in a language she didn’t speak. She was known to speak at least English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Czech
"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
Gotta eat a big wonderful meal, like a 20 ounce prime rib at Morton's, then come home to pour a glass of 30 year aged brandy, then light a wonderful dark, complex Maduro cigar, say a Comacho Triple Maduro. Sit back, puff bit, sip a bit, and let Diva Norman's equally rich, and complex voice take us away. Now life is good.
Awesome videobyte! So happy to have found this on CZcams! Thank you for the fond memories of the vocals of Miss Leontyne Price. What divine vocals she have!
@wTrevorh Did you not notice all the microphones around? It's obviously a recording session. Operas are rarely recorded as true live performances for albums. There's almost always a studio recording. Hardly a waste of time...this is magnificent work from all involved!
2 hours into a Jessye Norman rabbit hole - wonderful reminders of why I love love love that voice so much.
She sounds like liquid gold being poured into a gold vase... Spectacularly lovely! Bravo!!!
sometime as fragile as thin golden silk, sometime it is pouring golden rain, never disappoint, the depth of her artistry and hard work digging into the role, is top gold standard, what a loss to operatic world. True artist.
She had such a great tone and her voice was instantly recognizable. Cannot be said for many or most opera singers.
you put my thoughts to words
Even without being a staged production, I love how she just lets herself get lost in the music and the character.
Oh, and that control. I love that everything's not just on full blast. Not because she can't, but because she uses it for the right moments. Oh the subtleties she brings to her performances. *swoon*
Whatever she sang was perfection!
Jessye Norman, you are now in heaven, but your voice remains in our hearts forever.
The angels choir would have signed her up immediately upon her arrival in Heaven.
Jessye Norman and Seiji Ozawa....my God...I wish if I was there....just in the corner....
👍🏽
Somehow it's always the sopranos who get all the hype, but for me it's the mezzo that does it! Her MON COEUR S'OUVRE from Samson and Dalilah gives me goosebumps every time!
And that lovely Habanera quite late in her career: gorgeous!
I love her version mon coeur too! Simple melts me everytime.
Everyone who treasured her artistry should listen, now, to her recording of Strauss' Four Last Songs.
Yes. Yes. Powerful!
Look how the guy directly behind her gazes at her and shakes his head in awe at her brilliance!! That's priceless!
Together with Callas she's one of the rare sopranos who can ding this right, in mezzo register, thanks to her specific voice. Well donne, Jessye!
Love is a gypsy child who never, never follows the rules
💙🌸🌼🌺
R.I.P. Jessye Norman
your translation is accurate,
though literraly the lyrics is about love does not KNOW LAW
jessye rip
om mari peme hung
no superstition 😍
Her French accent is very good!
According to French commentators on other CZcams videos, her French is perfect!
I think Jessye Norman's version, is truly The Best! She has the perfect voice range for this song. The rich quality and the love, she puts, into it. So beautiful~ 🍃🌹🍃
BARBARA FLORES: You are SO VERY RIGHT. Well, it does "help" that I think exactly the same thing as you do, LOL! Because to me, JESSY NORMAN'S version is also the BEST.
The heavens gained a wonderful voice in their angel's choir
Rest in peace, our beautiful songstress, our fortress, our Queen. Vita Brevis, Ars Longa.
What a sensual, beautiful, thoughtful rendition.
This is from 1989, Jessye Norman is joined by tenor Neil Shicoff, with the Orchestre National de France led by Seiji Ozawa.
I think this is the clearest rendition of "Habanera" I have ever heard. Every note is emited with the perfect precision which is very, very rare in this aria (listen to admired Elina Garanca, how flat and colourless she is in her rendition available on YT). Maybe the tempo is too slow, which undoubtedly helps with smoothing every single note, but in general the result is amazing. Jessie Norman and Maria Callas are the best performers of this aria. Callas, singing in much faster tempo, is brilliant!
I love Jessye. I love Renee. More to mention, but I will admit that La Divina... Maria C. inspired great singers such as these.
Songelosodelzefiro I've found out that Christa Ludwig did Carmen albeit German. She's also quite the contender for those two!
El m
I had the chance to watch this show in a cultural channel in Mexico city a long long time ago, and I've been looking for this for years, cause I love it. It's such a pleasure to see it again. I wish there would be a DVD of this extraordinary artists' performance.
Anyone else notice how aazong her breath control is here? She sings this at an extraordinarily slow tempo, and still, she breezes straight through points where virtually every other singer (singing at the much faster standard tempo at that) have to pause to take a breath.
I love Jessye's voice. And this Mr. Ozawa looked very young and cute in white!
Comment pouvait-elle chanter aussi bien dans un français parfait !Absolutely Splendid!
This is just soo beautiful.. i love the song, its such a wonderful song but her voice is so amazing it makes me cry every time. i wish i could see her in person
I know absolutely no feench and could only read the subtitles and this was my first time hearing this song and this singer and I was just amazed.
Rest in peace, Jessye Norman
Comme cette video rend nostalgique ! Quelle artiste ! Cette voix sublime parfaitement maîtrisée, cette intelligence du texte...et cette diction ! Quel français parfait ! Et c'est émouvant de la voir au côté de Janine Reiss qui travailla aussi avec Maria Callas ! Bravo et merci !
Oh! She is a goddess! This year I had a pleasure to see her at Southbank in London and I'll never forget this day!
Gorgeous. Also the chorus sounds rich and beautiful.
MIssing her TREMENDOUS voice...
A queen, a priceless treasure.
Rest easy beloved, we will listen for all Time
Jessye! Jessye! Jessye! Wow.......Rest In Peace
Слушать и наслаждаться! 👍👏👏👏🌹🌹🌹
L'Espagne, la France, le Japon, et derrière Jessye l'Amérique et surtout l'Afrique. Indépassable...!!!
Une diction parfaite en français ! Elle est délicieuse ❤
Cómo desciende su tesitura al registro de la mezzo, como frasea, como marca el tiempo, con cuánta facilidad mantiene el color, que mujer más profesional esta.
Adore you Ms. Norman.
Me recordo quando assisti o VHS dessa fabulosa gravação da Carmen. Era, salvo engano, início de 1990. O tempo passa, mas as boas recordações sempre ficam. Descanse em paz Jessye Norman; você fez a diferença!
I used to watch documentaries about Jessye all the time on public television. What a gorgeous soul! Beauty really is an internal thing, and Jessye projected it in every song she sang. She was so cultured, eloquent, flawless in her execution, and beautiful. What a woman! In one of the scenes she looked so smug in her fur while she was waiting for her cue from Pavarotti. (This was back in the day before the PC madness when it was ok for women to wear fur and to just enjoy being feminine and ladylike.) I miss the days of yore. [Some things are just indescribably beautiful, and forever frozen in time by memory.] She had a gift that comes only from the Supernal. So sad that she's gone. I love her. I love her voice and her music and her passion, gratitude, and humility for God and for life. Thank you, Jessye, for this beautiful music that is a disappearing part of our culture.
Merci belle union de ces tallents ! À ceux qui sont ici bon chemin 2023 y más allá. Puisez l'amour vous.aurez l'anondance felicidades
Absolutely beautiful omg !
Energy🌟
Damn she's amazing! 👏👏👏👏👏👏❤❤❤❤❤❤
nous ne t'oublierons jamais.....R I P...ta voix .....SEIGNEUR
Why Seiji Ozawa is so good to bring his female singers Jessye Norman and Frederica Von Stade at the top of the perfection ?
She showed how amazing. This is absolutely beautiful
C'est horrible d'apprendre que Jessye Norman est morte. Mais il faut se considérer heureux d'avoir été ses contemporains et en ce qui me concerne, plus de 40 ans après l'avoir découverte lors d'un concert où elle chantait les 'Quatre Derniers Lieder' de R. Strauss, je me souviens de cette soirée comme de l'un des plus beaux moments de ma vie, quelque chose qui était proche d'un éblouissement. Si le mot 'Diva' a un sens, il le trouve ici, sa présence était constituée d'un art sublime et d'une bienveillance merveilleuse. L'écouter, c'était déjà grandiose mais être charmé(e) par elle était aussi délicieux. Magnifique, magnifique, magnifique Jessye Norman.
She is so wonderful - a beautiful soprano. :)🌷
jessye é diva que marca em seus recitais....
Gosh, She is so wonderful , love this , just wonderful, her smile makes you want to dance.
I love her that voice is pure magic.
02:38 I'm living for it
Obrigada Joca.
Tinha essa filmagem em fita de vídeo mas, deu fungo.Muito obrigada por me proporcionres essa alegria e emoção novamente.
Queen. We miss you.
Wow, I have just found out about this lady today, Incredible Music. I absolutely love this !
RIP Ms. Norman
The Japanese Maestro Director is favoloso
I feel the same way! LOL I just found this today! So happy to see this performance. : )
Wonderful!
AWESOME!!!!
Beautiful Genius.
Jessye, gracias!
Jessye could have sung more mezzo roles. Also, her French is excellent.
P.S.: The above video contains only half of the aria.
I cannot judge her french, but believe that languages must have been a major talent of hers, because as a native speaker I can judge her German and it is fantastic too
@@stefanwild326 amazingly, Jessye Norman never sang in a language she didn’t speak. She was known to speak at least English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Czech
Encantadores !
Thank you, Jessye...
Perfeição em forma de voz!
We will miss you Jessye
How I envy the angels.
Jessye Norman에 박수를 보냅니다.감동적입니다.
La meilleure
Du velours pour la passion.
HERMOSO COLOR DE VOZ. !LÁSTIMA QUE SE HAYA IDO YA!
"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
Wow🌻💖
Voce di una bellezza insolente, di una morbidezza e di un velluto sontuosi... irraggiungibile
Lovely. Very good. She IS Carmen
Yes !!!
C'EST MAGNIFIQUE.
J'ai la chaire de poule!
Gotta eat a big wonderful meal, like a 20 ounce prime rib at Morton's, then come home to pour a glass of 30 year aged brandy, then light a wonderful dark, complex Maduro cigar, say a Comacho Triple Maduro. Sit back, puff bit, sip a bit, and let Diva Norman's equally rich, and complex voice take us away. Now life is good.
MARAVILLOSA
Bravissima !
#chills 🥶❄️
Holy moly☺️😳
@wTrevorh NONSENSE! This is truly a masterpiece!
Классная Джесси! Монументальная Джесси!
jessy I love you.....the performance of Callas is beautiful too...bur with you I can fly between emotions 😍
True !
Помним. Любим. Скорбим.
Canta muito!
I need to hear the full version
so wickedly sensual slowed down and subdued like this
Богиня .. просто богиня
"Everything you do is sexy" 0:04
Has both the girls laughing.
♥️
Lindo
L'amour et entanto de Boheme ❤
❤❤💜💜
Jessye,R.I.P.
Voz perfecta y deliciosa
Awesome videobyte! So happy to have found this on CZcams! Thank you for the fond memories of the vocals of Miss Leontyne Price. What divine vocals she have!
Люблю.
RIP😢
@wTrevorh Did you not notice all the microphones around? It's obviously a recording session. Operas are rarely recorded as true live performances for albums. There's almost always a studio recording. Hardly a waste of time...this is magnificent work from all involved!
Помимо дивного голоса, полная отдача себя образу оперы Бизе.