Beverly Sills, left, the opera diva who was a global icon of can-do American culture with her dazzling voice, bubbly personality and management moxie, died Monday of cancer, her manager said. (Getty ...

She presented musicians, opera singers and dancers. “I don’t think of Judy as” an impresario, Itzhak Perlman said. “I think of her as a friend.” By Daniel E. Slotnik Mr. Capobianco created major ...

At first glance, the election of one-time operatic diva Beverly Sills as chairman of the board of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts seems to be a good thing. At a time when high culture and its ...

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One of the country's great operatic voices fell silent last night. Soprano Beverly Sills died from lung cancer at her home in Manhattan. She was 78 years old. With a silvery voice that soared high and ...

Beverly Sills Has SungBeverly Sills, the Brooklyn gal born Belle Silverman, died of cancer yesterday at 78. She was a quintessentially American diva — a quin- tessentially New York diva, even — who ...

Thomas Jefferson envisioned an aristocracy of merit. A daughter of Brooklyn, Beverly Sills rose to royalty on the operatic stage. Her career demonstrated that an American did not have to go overseas ...