Renata Tebaldi, a Stately and Stellar Soprano, Dies at 82
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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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Luciano Pavarotti, whose vibrant high C's and ebullient showmanship made him one of the world's most beloved tenors, died Thursday.
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The revered Swedish conductor Sixten Ehrling has died at the age of 86 in New York, his home for the last thirty years.
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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 Monday of cancer, her manager said. She was 78. It had been revealed just last month that Sills was gravely ill with inoperable lung cancer. She died about 9 p.m. Monday, said her manager, Edgar Vincent.
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Beverly Sills, the acclaimed Brooklyn-born soprano, died tonight at her home in Manhattan. She was 78.
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The Royal Opera said Tuesday that Ehrling, who was known for his vast knowledge of music and for his sharp temperament, died Sunday in New York City, where he had resided since the early 1970s.
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Etta Baker, an influential blues guitarist who recorded with Taj Mahal and was awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, has died, her family said. She was 93.
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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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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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Gian Carlo Menotti, who composed a pair of Pulitzer Prize-winning operas and founded the Spoleto arts festivals in Italy and the United States, died Thursday at a hospital in Monaco. He was 95.
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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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"The Maestro fought a long, tough battle against the pancreatic cancer which eventually took his life." &#151; Luciano Pavarotti's manager, Terri Robson, in a statement on the opera superstar's death this week at age 71.
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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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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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One of America's best-known opera singers, soprano Beverly Sills, dies from lung cancer in New York.
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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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Ms. Tebaldi, one of the most beloved opera singers of all time, had overwhelming expressivity and matchless allure.