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...fourth finger trills, Rubina Flake-a daydream twin invented in early childhood-polished off Chopin concertos. At 13, Flack played the complete score of Handel's Messiah for her church choir. In her early 20s, she became a serious opera student. At that time Flake, presumably, was a diva at the Met. It came as no small blow then when Flack's vocal coach gently suggested a pop singing career...
...turned out, she had a mob of fans in the audience to rival Sills's; the Sills people were wildly adoring but the Verrett people were fierce--they had more to prove. Verrett's solo netted a five-minute ovation, rhythmic pounding on the floor, shouts of "Brava, diva!" and a shower of shredded programs from the top balcony. The Sills fans were wealtheir--they threw bouquets of roses from the first-tier boxes...
Sweet Laments. The astonishing thing about all the hoopla is that Sills has been singing virtually in the Met's shadow all her life. As a seven-year-old named Belle Silverman in Brooklyn, she learned to imitate all her mother's records of the legendary diva Amelita Galli-Curci, and by nine she was singing arias like Caro nome and The Bell Song in a Manhattan radio studio on the Major Bowes Capitol Family Hour...
...marriage had dynastic overtones, but in the late 1950s Onassis struck up a long-playing romance with tempestuous Opera Diva Maria Callas. In 1960, Tina sued for divorce, after having given Onassis a son and heir, Alexander, and a daughter, Christina. Onassis' affair with Callas lasted nearly a decade, but by 1968, according to a friend, he was passionately in love with Jackie Kennedy. Their marriage prompted banner-and not always friendly-headlines throughout the world. JACKIE, HOW COULD YOU? asked Stockholm's Expressen...
...After 25 years, you are not what you were," reflected Diva Maria Callas last week. Though critics have been telling the volatile prima donna something like that for years, the Callas star quality still blazes in Japan where she and Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano have drawn sellout audiences and 40-minute curtain calls during their concert tour. Pausing in her $330-a-day Tokyo hotel suite, where the air-conditioning ducts were sealed to protect the famous Callas cords, the star spoke of her on-again, off-again career. "At a certain point in my life I had wanted...