NEW YORK — 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 Monday ...

NEW YORK - 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 Monday ...

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 ...

Beverly Sills, whose sparkling coloratura soprano and warm, spunky personality made her an international opera celebrity and whose experience as a mother made her a passionate advocate for children ...

During the mid-1970s, the landscape of American popular culture periodically witnessed something that in retrospect seems utterly implausible. Sitting in for Johnny Carson as host of "The Tonight Show ...

Renowned opera singer Beverly Sills would have celebrated her 90th birthday on May 25. She was born in New York City to Jewish Eastern European immigrants who valued hard work and appreciation of the ...

She presented musicians, opera singers and dancers. “I don’t think of Judy as” an impresario, Itzhak Perlman said. “I think of her as a friend.” By Daniel E. Slotnik Mr. Capobianco created major ...

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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 ...

One of the country's great operatic voices fell silent last night. Soprano Beverly Sills died from lung cancer at her home in Manhattan. She was 78 years old. With a silvery voice that soared high and ...