Jessye Norman dead

[Nearly Sane]

Saw her at the Met in New York once, on a half price ticket. Was utterly brilliant.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/30/obituaries/jessye-norman-dead.html#click=https://t.co/1Rl0HvFcOx

[Harrowby Hall]

I never saw her in the flesh, but I do recall her in a televised Prom as the soloist in Mahler 4. Instead of sitting on the platform waiting to sing, she entered at the end of the third movement. The audience went wild.