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Tuesday, 1 October 2019

Jessye Norman was a diva whose voice could not be denied

If arias are like lyrical prose poems, then each singer who performs one is like a poet who reads their work with a unique timbre and cadence. Whether she was singing the Habenero from Act 1 of Bizet's "Carmen," "Lieder" by Richard Strauss or performing in a Wagner opera, Jessye Norman's voice was pure poetry.

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