The plaza outside of the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts will now be known as Treigle Plaza. Norman Treigle, who was born in New Orleans on March 6, 1927 and passed away February 16, ...

Jessye Norman, the renowned opera singer, no longer performs as widely as she did in the 1970s through 1990s, but she will write a memoir about her family and professional life, her publisher said on ...

Jessye Norman's commanding soprano voice makes her the quintessential operatic diva for many listeners. But she frequently draws inspirations from jazz: She ranks singers like Billie Holiday, Mabel ...

Opera legend Jessye Norman and her new memoir of growing up black in the segregated South and taking the world stage with her song. Opera great Jessye Norman grew up African American in Augusta, ...