Beverly Sills

[danemodsandy]

Well, we lost Bubbles today...

"Beverly Sills, the acclaimed Brooklyn-born coloratura soprano who was more popular with the American public than any opera singer since Enrico Caruso, even among people who never set foot in an opera house, died Monday night at her home in Manhattan. She was 78."

I will always remember what Sills did to bring opera to popular attention. She was probably the only opera star willing to do things like The Carol Burnett Show, to show America that opera wasn't something to be afraid or disdainful of. She will be missed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/02/arts/03cnd-03Sills.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

 

[sudsmaster]

I read the other day that she was near death. What a loss. I remember her doing the Muppet Show, too. A very classy trouper.

 

[panthera]

That's the difference

Between an artist and a "star". She was an artist who also happened to be a star.
No need to mention the word "diva" in this forum...
(ducks and runs)

 

[frigilux]

I'll hit a high G for the diva. She was an amazing talent and she had quite a sense of humor----as divas go, anyway.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Shalom to Beverly Sills, A Great Lady

I hope that they kept her pain-free once they discovered how ill she was. She did not deserve any more pain than life had dealt her. Almost no one deserves pain. She used to wear two extra wrist watches so that she would always know, wherever in the world she might be, what time it was in her children's special schools so that she could know what they were doing then. She spoke with heartbreak of how her chromosomes and her husband's were a disastrous mix as evinced in their children. According to a story in the A section of this morning's Washington Post, she told intimates that "happy I'll never be; cheerful I'll always try to be." In both sentiment and construction, you could not ask for a finer piece of Jewish philosophy.

Earlier in her career, Sir Rudolph Bing kept her sitting in his waiting room all day without seeing her. She vowed that she would not set foot in the Met until he was gone and she told the management of the Met that was the reason she would not accept invitations to sing there when she was in such high demand.

 

[maytagbear]

At least there are the recordings

One of my very few regrets is that I never heard her live. Only on television or records (now CD's).

I will always see HER as the Daughter of The Regiment.

I will miss her indeed.

Lawrence/Maytagbear