Jessye Norman - Opera Roles

Opera Roles

These are notable opera roles that Norman has performed.

  • Aïda, Aïda (Verdi)
  • Alceste, Alceste (Gluck)
  • Ariadne, Ariadne auf Naxos (Richard Strauss)
  • Armida, Armida (Haydn)
  • Carmen, Carmen (Bizet)
  • Cassandre, Les Troyens (Berlioz)
  • Countess Almaviva, The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
  • Dido, Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)
  • Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni (Mozart)
  • Elisabeth, Tannhäuser (Wagner)
  • Elle, La voix humaine (Poulenc)
  • Elsa, Lohengrin (Wagner)
  • Emilia Marty, The Makropulos Affair (Janáček)
  • Giulietta, The Tales of Hoffman (Offenbach)
  • Hélène, La belle Hélène (Offenbach)
  • Idamante, Idomeneo (Mozart)
  • Isolde, Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) (Act II in Concert)
  • Jocasta, Oedipus rex (Stravinsky)
  • Judith, Bluebeard's Castle (Bartók)
  • Kundry, Parsifal (Wagner)
  • Giulietta di Kelbar, Un giorno di regno (Verdi)
  • Leonore, Fidelio (Beethoven)
  • Madame Lidoine, Dialogues of the Carmelites (Poulenc)
  • Marguerite, La damnation de Faust (Berlioz)
  • Medora, Il Corsaro (Verdi)
  • Pénélope, Pénélope (Fauré)
  • Phedra, Hippolyte et Aricie (Rameau)
  • Rosina, La vera costanza (Haydn)
  • Salome, Salome (Richard Strauss)
  • Salome, Hérodiade (Massenet)
  • Santuzza, Cavalleria rusticana (Pietro Mascagni)
  • Sélica, L'Africaine (Meyerbeer)
  • Sieglinde, Die Walküre (Wagner)
  • Third Norn, Götterdämmerung (Wagner)
  • Woman, Erwartung (Schoenberg)

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