Famed Italian soprano dead at 82
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ROME An Italian soprano who was one of the biggest stars at New York&#39;s Metropolitan Opera and Italy&#39;s La Scala has died at her home in San Marino -- a tiny republic in Italy.
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Italian soprano Renata Tebaldi, one of the great post-World War II opera divas who Arturo Toscanini said had the &quot;voice of an angel,&quot; has died, a family friend said Sunday.
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Luciano Pavarotti, perhaps the most famous opera singer ever, died on Thursday morning, aged 71.
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The opera world was yesterday mourning the death of Renata Tebaldi, the greatest Italian soprano of her generation and the rival of Maria Callas.
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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, her manager said.
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Astrid Varnay, the Swedish-American soprano who made her Metropolitan Opera debut &#151; without rehearsal &#151; in a nationally broadcast performance and went on to sing for half a century, has died. She was 88.
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Oriana Fallaci, one of Italy's best-known  journalists and war correspondents who shocked the literary  world with a vitriolic assault on Islam after the September 11  attacks on the United States, died on Friday aged 77.
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Luciano Pavarotti, 71, who died last night of pancreatic cancer at his home in Modena, Italy, combined a lustrous lyric tenor voice with a radiant and expansive personal charm to win the largest and most diversified audience ever accorded an opera singer.
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Beverly Sills, one of the United States&#39; most acclaimed opera singers, died Monday due to lung cancer, US media reported. She was 78.
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MODENA, Italy  - About 50,000 mourners paid tribute to Luciano Pavarotti at his funeral in his hometown on Saturday and Prime Minister Romano Prodi said Italy was "sad but proud" to salute one of the greatest tenors in opera history.
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Victoria de los Angeles, a Spanish soprano whose career spanned five decades as her voice was sought after for its masterful tonal control and its seemingly effortless ability to turn on the power, died Saturday. She was 81.
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Opera soprano Beverly Sills was being remembered Sunday at a tribute presented by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Metropolitan Opera and the New York City Opera.
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Rock stars, political leaders and  grieving music fans joined the family of Luciano Pavarotti on  Saturday at the funeral of one of the greatest tenors in opera  history.
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Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti has died at his home in Modena.
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Famed soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, a 20th century legend who won global acclaim for her renditions of Mozart and Strauss, died Thursday at her home in western Austria, state television reported. She was 90.
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MODENA, Italy  - Rock stars, political leaders and grieving music fans joined the family of Luciano Pavarotti on Saturday at the funeral of one of the greatest tenors in opera history.
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Legendary Spanish soprano Victoria de los Angeles dies in hospital in  Barcelona aged 81.