Beverly Sills left

Beverly Sills as Pamira in L'Assedio di Corinto (Rossini), © Beth Bergman 2007

Last few days, some alarming news about the health of american soprano Beverly Sills were disclosed (here and there).


Well, she died Monday night at 78, of an inoperable lung cancer.


Further reading:

• the detailled article of Anthony Tommasini of the New York Times,

• Chris Pasles for the Los Angeles Times,

• John von Rhein for the Chicago Tribune,

• David Patrick Stearns for the Philadelphia Inquirer,

• Verena Dobnik for the News Tribune.com,
  

• Brian Kellow for Opera News (owned by the MET Opera where she was chairwoman) with beautiful pictures on stage

• l'hommage de ForumOpera
  

YouTube extracts:

• "Il faut partir" from La fille du régiment, Donizetti (sound only)


• "Una voce poco fa" from Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Rossini, 1976

• "E il sol dell'anima" with Alfredo Kraus, from Rigoletto, Verdi, 1978 (sound only)
  

• Al Muppet Show (in italian) thanks to the smart eye of Kozlika