Word: diva
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blizzard of flower petals, balloons, confetti and bravoes, she dipped her final curtsy with all the grace and enfolding gaiety that have made her the country's favorite diva. It was her last hurrah as an opera singer. For more than a quarter of a century audiences have been captivated by her supple, crystalline soprano voice, the musicality of her every acting gesture and her warm, spontaneous personality, which soared-but never stomped-across the footlights. There was no phony mystique, no overlay of artistic "temperament" in a world notorious for imperious egos. Sills onstage was indistinguishable from Sills...
Sills' pal and fellow trouper. Leading the diva to center stage, Carol caroled: "Beverly here thought she could sneak out on us!" Fat chance. Thereafter, like sneak out Halloween treats, plus a few tricks, came star after star to celebrate Sills...
...real drama involves the principals, Tenor Luciano Pavarotti and Soprano Renata Scotto. San Francisco is his territory, the town that virtually takes credit for his American success; the lady is understandably apprehensive. She is a warm and pretty woman and also a diva who knows the craft of staging and upstaging. From Stage Director Lotfi Mansouri she seeksand getsendless reassurance...
...conducted opera, for New York City in 1922, his U.S. career did not bloom until eight years later when he was hired to lead the CBS symphony orchestra on radio's Chesterfield Hour. After making the program a hit, he added to his celebrity by marrying Opera Diva Lily Pons in 1938 (they divorced in 1958) and by cutting more than 200 discs with Columbia (life time record sales: 52 million). He commissioned works by Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson and other Americans that became repertory standards. And while he would outrage purists by making a medley of a Tchaikovsky...