Beverly Sills, America's Queen of Opera, dies at 78
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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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A full 30 years after her death, diva Maria Callas, the most celebrated opera singer of the post-World War II period, remains both a favourite for opera-lovers and a legend outside the world of classical music.
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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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Jazz star George Melly has died at his home in London at the age of 80, his wife Diana said Thursday.
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MODENA, Italy  - Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti, hailed by many as the greatest tenor of his generation, died on Thursday after a long battle with cancer, his manager Terri Robson said.
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CNN.com readers remember Luciano Pavarotti as an opera singer who inspired them to take the stage, a man whose voice gave them goose bumps and the "greatest singer ever." Pavarotti died today, prompting one reader to cry on her way to work.
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Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras lead tributes to opera star Luciano Pavarotti, who has died aged 71.
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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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Luciano Pavarotti, perhaps the most famous opera singer ever, died on Thursday morning, aged 71.
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Alice Ghostley, the Tony Award-winning actress best known on television for playing Esmeralda on "Bewitched" and Bernice on "Designing Women," has died. She was 81.
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Luciano Pavarotti, whose vibrant high C's and ebullient showmanship made him one the most beloved tenors, has died, his manager told The Associated Press. He was 71.
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World-renowned soprano Beverly Sills,  who went from stardom on the opera stage to become chairwoman  of two great U.S. opera companies, is critically ill with  cancer, her publicist said on Thursday.
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Italian soprano Renata Tebaldi, one of the great post-World War II opera divas who Arturo Toscanini said had the "voice of an angel," has died, a family friend said Sunday. She was 82.
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World-renowned soprano Beverly Sills, who went from stardom on the opera stage to become chairwoman of two great U.S. opera companies, is critically ill with cancer, her manager said on Thursday.
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Renata Tebaldi, the Italian soprano whose voice Arturo Toscanini compared to that of an angel, died Sunday at her home in San Marino.
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The soprano Renata Tebaldi, one of the most beloved opera singers of all time - Arturo Toscanini, hard to please, said she had &quot;the voice of an angel&quot; - died today in the Republic of San Marino, her doctor said.
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Rose Bampton, a soprano who was a New York Metropolitan Opera mainstay during the 1930s and 1940s, has died. She was 99.