Beverly Sills

Catching up with young soprano Jackie Evancho [Video]

2012-02-18 16:33:52

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What should Jackie Evancho sing to win $1 million?

2010-09-10 16:33:16

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Discoveries

2010-10-31 00:00:00

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat ( Princeton University Press: 181 pp., $19.95) "Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part...

Book review: 'Outside Looking In: Adventures of an Observer' by Garry Wills

2010-11-17 00:00:00

On the surface, Garry Wills' "Outside Looking In: Adventures of an Observer" is an account of how a bookish young writer came to know a lot of famous people as a Zelig-like character amid glittering stars of political, journalistic and even operatic...

Shirley Verrett dies at 79; acclaimed mezzo-soprano

2010-11-07 00:00:00

Shirley Verrett, an acclaimed American mezzo-soprano and soprano praised for her blazing intensity during a career that spanned four decades, died Friday in Ann Arbor, Mich. She was 79. Verrett, one of the top opera singers of the 1970s and '80s, had...

Vote: Is Jackie Evancho changing her sound?

2010-09-02 16:33:00

Tom Dixon dies at 94; L.A. radio's voice of classical music for over 50 years

2010-04-01 00:00:00

Tom Dixon, who was a familiar voice to classical-music lovers for more than 50 years as a Los Angeles radio host, has died. He was 94. Dixon died March 13 of age-related causes at a rehabilitation facility in Burbank, said his wife, Catherine. When it...

Monster Mash: The Obamas borrow artwork from museums; Tom DeLay quits dancing; Pee-wee Herman postpones

2009-10-07 16:32:33

In New York, City Opera tries to turn a page

2009-11-06 16:32:39

Monster Mash: Museum to go back to nature; son to get Ansel Adams photos; special Tonys announced

2010-04-22 16:33:02

Pipe Dreams

2008-11-20 16:46:35

"The question you're always asked is, 'Is opera still relevant?' " says handsome young tenor on the rise Joseph Kaiser. Despite his amiable temperament, he seems peeved by the frequently posed query. And why not? Singers like Kaiser and star baritone...

Requiem: 2007 passings of note

2007-12-29 00:00:00

Among the major notables who passed from the scene this year, three of the most famous -- two masters of cinema and a genius of football -- died on the same day: July 30. Two others -- a historic Russian leader and a U.S. chronicler of war -- left us...

Tony Bennett with opera star Beverly Sills as she announces formation of a touring opera company in 1980. Tony Bennett: Hollywood Star Walk

2011-08-03 09:27:38

Danielle de Niese, born in Australia 27 years ago and raised in L.A., is the latest hot Handel soprano, and on her Decca debut disc she sounds like a wild, young Beverly Sills.

2007-12-04 16:55:55

opera stars Beverly Sills and Luciano Pavorotti rehearse for "Gala of Stars," a 1980 PBS television special.

2007-09-05 15:27:09