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The voice of Jessye Norman soars again in trove of unreleased recordings

A new collection of recordings finally freed from the vaults offers a chance to hear one of opera's greatest artists sing Wagner, Strauss, Berlioz and more.
Soprano Jessye Norman left a number of recordings in the vault at the time of her death. Now some of them have been released for the first time.

In the years before her untimely death, 's career was winding down and record executives were nudging the soprano to release a number of her recordings that lay silent in the vaults, some for decades. When she died in 2019 at age 74, those prompts remained unheeded. Now, some of that unheard music is being issued in a three-volume set titled . It's an opera lover's treasure trove

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