Veteran soprano Jessye Norman calls her upcoming performances in Tokyo and Nagoya a "big challenge."
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She has certainly set herself a formidable task. In a single evening she will be performing not one but two short operas composed for a solo singer, Arnold Schonberg's "Erwartung (Expectation)" (1909) and Francis Poulenc's "La voix humaine" (1958).