Opera Star Robert Merrill Dies at 85
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Stars of the Metropolitan Opera stand backstage during the season&#39;s opening presentation of Umberto Giordano&#39;s &quot;Andrea Chenier,&quot; in this Oct. 15, 1962 file photo in New York.
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Milan's La Scala is marking the 30th anniversary of Maria Callas' death with an exhibition which includes costumes and photographs never shown to the public before. The most celebrated opera singer of the post-war period, Callas remains both a favorite for opera-lovers and a legend outside the world of classical music. She retired young following the premature decline of her voice and died a recluse in her Paris flat at the age of 53...
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Jack Warden, an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor who played gruff cops, coaches and soldiers in a career that spanned five decades, has died. He was 85.
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OPERA star Luciano Pavarotti has led tributes to Italian soprano Renata Tebaldi, who has died at the age of 82. Tebaldi, renowned for her star appearances at New Yorkâs Metropolitan and Italyâs La Scala
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Legendary Spanish soprano Victoria de los Angeles dies in hospital in  Barcelona aged 81.
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The great Italian opera singer Renata Tebaldi died yesterday at her home in San Marino, Italy, after a long illness. Tebaldi was considered to have one of the most beautiful Italian voices of the 20th Century.
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NEW YORK  &#151; 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 of cancer, her manager said. She was 78.
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PETER CAVE: The world-renowned Italian soprano, Renata Tebaldi, has died at the age of 82. Stricken with polio at the age of three, she was unable to take part in more strenuous activities, and instead became interested in music.
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Choreographer Michael Kidd, whose athletic dances for ballet, Broadway and Hollywood delighted audiences for half a century and won him five Tonys and an Oscar, has died.
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Italian opera singer Renata Tebaldi, who was a great rival to Maria Callas, dies in San Marino aged 82.
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Robert Merrill, whose powerful  baritone voice was featured for decades at both New York's  Metropolitan Opera and Yankees baseball games, and who helped  spread an appreciation of opera to a broader U.S. audience,  died at home on Saturday.
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One of America's best-known opera singers, soprano Beverly Sills, dies from lung cancer in New York.
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LOS ANGELES : Actor Howard Keel, a baritone who brought popular Broadway musicals to the silver screen in the 1950s and later starred in the television drama &quot;Dallas&quot; in the 1980s, died Sunday of colon cancer, US media reported.
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Legendary Italian tenor Luciano  Pavarotti, who brought opera to the masses, died on Thursday  after a battle with cancer. He was 71.
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Ossie Davis, the actor distinguished for roles dealing with racial injustice on stage, screen and in real life, has died, an aide said Friday. He was 87.
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Opera singer Robert Merrill, famed for his appearances at the New York Yankees' stadium, has died.
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MODENA, Italy  - Legendary Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, whose unique, pristine voice and charisma brought opera to the masses, died of cancer on Thursday aged 71.