Tributes to Beverly Sills

All over the Internet, from YouTube to the Metropolitan Opera Website, there are tributes to our wonderful Beverly Sills. Undoubtedly one of the best loved opera singers ever, Ms. Sills deserves every single one of these tributes.

Anthony Thommasini from the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/arts/music/04tomm.html?em&ex=1183780800&en=0782032e05d606bb&ei=5087%0A

Remembering Beverly Sills (nytimes):
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/03/remembering-beverly-sills/#comment-2621

Metropolitan Opera:
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/news/press/detail.aspx?id=341

New York City Opera:
http://www.nycopera.com/about/press/detail.aspx?rid=55

Statements from the Sills family:
http://www.beverlysillsonline.com/whatsnew.htm

The Beverly Sills website:
http://www.beverlysillsonline.com/

Carol Burnett remembers her friend:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11710174

Baltimore Sun:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/music/bal-to.sills04jul04,0,4136001.story?coll=bal-artslife-music

New York Daily News:

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/culture/2007/07/addio_beverly.html

The New York Times Obituary:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/03/arts/music/03sills.html?em&ex=1183694400&en=673cd76be1b69dbf&ei=5087%0A

Beverly Sills was laid to rest yesterday (July 4th) with only a small service and burial. We are all praying for her family and those who knew her best. We all know that she's singing beautifully in the opera house in the sky.

Beverly Sills (May 25, 1929 – July 2, 2007)

Beverly Sills died yesterday at approximately 9pm. The cause was an aggressive form of lung cancer, although she never smoked. Ms. Sills was an extraordinary coloratura soprano and gave 110% of everything she had into every role she ever played. I'm very sorry I never got the chance to see her perform live or see her at all. I feel like I know her through her recordings and everything I have heard about her. She is and will always remain one of my favorite sopranos of all time. She was a great advocate for the arts even after she retired from the stage. Ms. Sills was first the general director of the New York City Opera, then was a Chairwoman of Lincoln Center, and finally was a Chairwoman on the Metropolitan Opera Board of Directors. On top of all this she had two disabled children, Meredith (Muffy) and Peter (Bucky).



I sincerely hope that Bubbles's last moments were peaceful and that she is in a better place. We love you, Bubbles!!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoXHfNGtccc

Beverly "Bubbles" Sills

1929-2007