The Metropolitan Opera has named soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen the winner of the 2025 Beverly Sills Artist Award. The annual $50,000 award recognizes extraordinarily gifted singers with rising Met ...
NEW YORK 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 a child star who sang ...
(Reuters) - Following are some facts about world-renowned soprano Beverly Sills, who died on Monday evening in New York from inoperable lung cancer aged 78. * Sills went from stardom on the opera ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - 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 ...