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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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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Victoria de los Angeles, a Spanish soprano whose career spanned five decades, died Saturday at a clinic in Barcelona.
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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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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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aura Branigan, a singer whose high-volume vocals in the disco song &quot;Gloria&quot; propelled her into pop stardom, died in her sleep on Thursday night at her home in East Quogue, NY She was 47.
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American Opera said goodbye to its first lady on Saturday, exalting Sarah Caldwell in prayer and song in a tribute fit for a musical giant.
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The pop star, who found fame in the 1980s with hits Gloria and Self Control, died in her sleep at her home in East Quogue, New York on Thursday.
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Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti, hailed by many as the greatest tenor of his generation, died in the early hours of Thursday, his manager Terri Robson said.
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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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Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti dies of cancer at home in Modena, aged 71.
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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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Italian opera singer Renata Tebaldi has died at her home in San Marino. She was 82. Tebaldi made her debut in 1944 after having studied at the Parma Conservatory from the age of 15.
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(AGI) - Rome, Dec. 20 - &quot;With the demise of Renata Tebaldi, Italy has lost a performer extraordinaire and one of its greatest opera singers&quot;, said Cultural Heritage Minister Giuliano Urbani.
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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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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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Beverly Sills, one of the United States&#39; most acclaimed opera singers, died Monday due to lung cancer, US media reported. She was 78.