NY Opera singer Rose Bampton dies
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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.
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MODENA, Italy  - 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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MODENA, Italy  - Legendary Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, who brought opera to the masses with his powerful voice and jovial personality, died on Thursday of pancreatic cancer, aged 71.
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Singer and author died at his London home, aged 80.
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Soprano Victoria de los Angeles, one of the great Spanish opera voices of the 20th century, died overnight in a Barcelona hospital at age 81, the Liceu opera house said on Saturday.
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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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Conductor Heinrich Hollreiser, whose musical career was linked to the postwar musical rebirth in Austria and Germany, has died at age 93, officials of the Austrian State Opera said Wednesday.
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NEW YORK  &#151; 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 &#151; a child star who sang commercials for laundry soap and grew up to play queens.
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Variety - NEW YORK  -- Fred Ebb, who wrote the lyrics for such hit Broadway musicals as "Chicago" and "Cabaret" as well as the big-city anthem "New York, New York," died Saturday of a heart attack.
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Friends and admirers of Luciano Pavarotti joined in a chorus of grief as the world paid homage to the thrilling voice and exuberant personality of the great Italian tenor who died Thursday.
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Opera singer Jerry Hadley died Wednesday, just over a week after he was severely injured in an apparent suicide attempt, a family spokeswoman said.
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Howard Keel, the broad-shouldered baritone who romanced his way through a series of glittery MGM musicals such as &quot;Kiss Me Kate&quot; and &quot;Annie Get Your Gun&quot; and later revived his career with television&#39;s &quot;Dallas,&quot; died Sunday.
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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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Renata Tebaldi, one of the leading operatic sopranos of the 20th century, died today at her home in San Marino, the Associated Press reports.
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NEW YORK - Fred Ebb, who wrote the lyrics for such hit Broadway musicals as "Chicago" and "Cabaret" as well as the big-city anthem "New York, New York," has died of a heart attack.    Ebb died Saturday at his home, said David McKeown, an assistant to composer John Kander, Ebb's longtime collaborator...
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The âBrokeback Mountainâ star was found dead in a SoHo apartment on Tuesday afternoon, the New York City police said.
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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 July 2 of cancer, her manager said. She was 78.