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Special Announcement
Statement from Beverly's family:
This is Beverly's cousin Kenny Morse. I just want to say thank you to all for the beautiful comments. If you would like to read a personal remembrance of Bubbles, visit my website at www.kennymorse.com
Thanks to the people who run this website for always doing such an amazing job. The family is coping with this loss which is so huge for us, as she was not only a loved one, but she was to us as well, larger than life. Please know that her immediate family, Daughter Muffy, and Brother Stan, are ok and handling the loss as well as can be expected. She will be laid to rest tomorrow (the 4th) in a private ceremony at our family's cemetary (next to her mother and father). I hope you will continue to post here, as I will pass these on to Muffy.
Lincoln Center Tributes:
July 3 - At 7:30 p.m., the thousands of dancers who gather on Josie Robertson Plaza for Midsummer Night Swing will be asked to observe a minute of silence.
At the same time, inside Avery Fisher Hall, the New York Philharmonic will begin its concert with a performance of Bernstein's Overture to Candide. In a tradition that began with the death of Bernstein, it will be performed without a conductor. Zarin Mehta will speak from the stage. The Philharmonic chose the music because its celebratory nature matched Sills's zest for life.
At the same time, the house lights at Avery Fisher Hall and at the New York State Theater will be shut off for one minute.
The Metropolitan Opera on Sirius Satellite Radio (Channel 85) will broadcast tribute performances this week, beginning tonight (July 3) at 9 p.m. with a broadcast of Rossini's The Siege of Corinth from Sills's debut season (1975). Host Margaret Juntwait will give a special introduction about Sills.
The tribute continues on Thursday night (July 5) at 9 p.m. with Sills's Met broadcast of Massenet's Thaïs, and again on Friday night (July 6) at 8 p.m. with a repeat of The Siege of Corinth.
The Museum of Television & Radio:
As a tribute to the beloved soprano, who died on July 2, 2007, The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television & Radio) will be screening a long-lost 1962 WCBS television program featuring composer Douglas Moore (1893-1969), who talks about his opera The Ballad of Baby Doe, and Ms. Sills, who played Baby Doe Tabor in the legendary 1958 New York City Opera production of this work. Highlights include Sills's rendition of the "Willow Song" from The Ballad of Baby Doe and "When All is Still and Fair" from another Moore opera, Wings of the Dove. The host of the program is Earl Wrightson. (1962; 45 minutes) The schedule is: Thursday, July 5, at 6 p.m. and thereafter daily (Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, etc) at 3:00 p.m.. through Sunday, July 15.
From July 17 through July 29 The Paley Center for Media will screen Sills and Burnett at the Met. The Paley Center will be screening this much-heralded musical special, taped at New York's Metropolitan Opera House and featuring Sills and comedian Carol Burnett. The program opens with a dialogue between Burnett and Sills, who then sing "Only an Octave Apart." Highlights include Burnett and Sills in an audition sketch, Sills performing Donizetti's "O Luce Di Quest' Anima," and the two women singing a medley of torch songs paired with arias that also express the blues. Directed by Dave Powers. (1976, 60 minutes)
The Paley Center is located at 25 West 52nd Street and admission is by suggested contribution. The Paley Center, Formerly The Museum of Television & Radio
July 2 - Beverly Sills dies of cancer in New York City - For full details, see New York Times obituary. For those who wish to leave memories and tributes, click here for our website's guestbook.
May 25 - Beverly Sills Greenough, celebrates her 78th birthday. (Sills put the date as May 26th in her book "Beverly: An autobiography," which was copied by several later young adult biographies. But May 25 is the date she supplies for her entry in "Who's Who.")
April 26:- The second annual Sills Award, the $50,000 prize established by the Metropolitan Opera in honor of Sills that goes to a young singer at the Met, went to mezzo Joyce DiDonato, who recently starred in the Met's "Barbiere" broadcast and telecast. Sills called DiDonato personally to tell her of the award. DiDonato joins baritone Nathan Gunn as recipient of the award.
January : Beverly Sills participated in two of the Metropolitan Opera's new live high definition relays of selected Saturday afternoon broadcasts in movie theaters across America and Europe. For the January 6 performance of "I Puritani," Sills joined Margaret Juntwait in the broadcast booth for commentary before the opera and during two intermissions. For the January 13 performance of "The First Emperor," a new opera by Tan Dun, Sills interviewed the opera's star, Placido Domingo, backstage during the intermission. She also interviewed backstage staff as the scenery was being changed.
Media Articles - Feb 01 - Sills reflects on the lifespan of her singing career, vocal instructors and other colleagues, for the December issue of Opera Magazine by Gerald Moore. |
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May 21 - Newly discovered recordings of the Buenos Aires July 4th, 1972 performance of "Lucia Di Lammermoor" ; New York City Opera's March 9th, 1969 performance of "Manon" and the March 3rd, 1968 performance of "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" performed at the San Antonio Opera are verified. Click the accompanied link for more information. May 20 - Two of Sills' out-of-print CDs are now available through Arkiv (www.arkivmusic.com), from their ArkivCD out-of-print service. "Welcome to Vienna" and "Sills Sings Verdi" can be ordered for regular CD prices from this service, which has been licensed to duplicate the EMI CDs on demand, including original covers and CD booklets. Feb 14 - Newly discovered recording of the December 26, 1968 Cleveland concert with Louis Lane conducting is available. For a complete list of arias that Sills sang, please click here. |
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Music Rooms - Jan 15 - Sills was seven months pregnant during the April 1959 production of Weisgall's "Six Characters in Search of An Author". She is accompanied by McChesney, Williams, Timberlake, Macurdy, Voketaitis with Sylvain LevinKolk conducting. |
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| Photo Galleries - May 25 - Never before seen pictures of Sills in a variety of roles are posted to sync with her birthday celebrations. Pictures of Aida, Constanza, Cleopatra, 1953 Gallo wine advertisement and the alternate photo cover for the 1969 Newsweek magazine. March 29 - Mary Martin, Beverly Sills and Ethel Merman on a 1976 episode of "Lifestyles with Beverly Sills" (NBC-TV)" photograph is now available for viewing. March 28 - National Artists Corporation Ad (Sills' agent at the time) in Februrary 1957 Musical America praising Sills' voice with positive quotes from the N.Y. Herald Tribune, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Time Magagzine" photograph is now available for viewing. Feb 04 - Two photographs from the 1970 performance of Lucia Di Lammermoor at Covent Garden, with Beverly Sills, Heather Begg and Delme Bryn-Jones. Pictures are viewable here and here ; courtesy of Brian Castles-Onion Feb 03 - Beverly Sills as Queen Elizabeth I and Susanne Marsee as Sara, in Donizetti's Roberto Devereux. Picture can be viewed here Feb 01 - Two photographs from the 1972 performance of Lucia Di Lammermoor at Pittsburg Opera, with Beverly Sills and Robert Bickerstaff. Pictures are viewable here and here ; courtesy of Brian Castles-Onion Jan 16 - 1954 Air France passenger manifest with passenger "Belle Silverman" and a tender portrait of Sills at sixteen years old are now available. Jan 15 - 1976 ARCO Ad with Sills and Opera Magazine's January 1968 cover with Sills and Treigle in Handel's Giulio Cesare can be viewed in the memorabilia collection . |
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Video Room - Feb 04 - Sills sings "I vostri cenci vi mando... Caro padre, madre amatasto, amici" aria from Rossini's "Il Turco in Italia." |
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Performance Annals -  June 30 - revised edition uploadedMay 25 - revised edition uploaded Feb 14 - revised edition uploaded |
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