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Beverly Sills Born May 25, 1929
finances as well as increasing attendance. She was also longtime chairwoman on the Board of Trustees for the March of Dimes and continued to promote philanthropic causes. Beverly Sills died after battling lung cancer on July 2, 2007 at the age of 78. from Bella Online Read more »
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Angela Meade – 2012 Beverly Sills Artist – Makes Debuts at Deutsche Oper Berlin and Three Major U.S. Music Festivals
PBS invites viewers to experience a groundbreaking collaboration when it airs The Goat Rodeo Sessions' first live performance on Friday, May 25, 2012 at 9:00PM (check local listings). The Goat Rodeo Sessions combines the talents of four different solo arti from Net New Music Read more »
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Dominick Argento: A career filled with high notes
one of the leading opera composers in the United States. The opera, “Miss Havisham’s Fire,” was written for the legendary Beverly Sills. Sills died in 2007, but Argento, very much alive at 84, has slipped into an odd obscurity: Aficionados praise his works, from The Washington Post Read more »
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Music: Beverly Sills: The Fastest Voice Alive
IT was a crisis in the Brooklyn household of Morris Silverman. Ten-year-old Belle had announced that she wanted to become an opera star, "not an opera singer, but a star." Papa was appalled. He had not objected to the piano and singing lessons for little B from Time Magazine Read more »
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Music: Champagne Time for Beverly Sills
Before Puccini's La Rondine opened at the New York City Opera this season, all the signs pointed to a disaster. The work was little known, and had been dismissed by earlier generations as inconsequential. The intended conductor, C. William Harwood, died un from Time Magazine Read more »
