NEW YORK Some people called her Bubbles. Others knew her as "the diva next door." But to most of the world, Brooklyn-born soprano Beverly Sills was America's first prima donna a child star who sang ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Beverly Sills, the world-renowned soprano who became the most popular opera singer in America in modern times, died on Monday evening in New York from inoperable lung cancer, ...

The Metropolitan Opera has named soprano Leah Hawkins the winner of the 2024 Beverly Sills Artist Award. The annual $50,000 award recognizes extraordinarily gifted singers with rising Met careers.

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Willis-Sørensen made her Met debut as Countess Almaviva in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro in 2014, returning to the role in the 2015–16 and 2017–18 seasons. Her other Met roles include Donna Anna in ...

(Reuters) - Following are some facts about world-renowned soprano Beverly Sills, who died on Monday evening in New York from inoperable lung cancer aged 78. * Sills went from stardom on the opera ...

Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born opera diva who was a global icon of can-do American culture with her dazzling voice, bubbly personality and management moxie in the arts world, died July 2 of cancer, ...

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