Beverly Sills Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Beverly Sills Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Beverly Sills (May 25, 1929 â€" July 2, 2007) was an American operatic

soprano whose peak career was between the 1950s and 1970s.Although she

sang a repertoire from Handel and Mozart to Puccini, Massenet and

Verdi, she was known for her performances in coloratura soprano roles

in live opera and recordings. Sills was largely associated with the

operas of Donizetti, of which she performed and recorded many roles.

Her signature roles include the title role in Donizetti's Lucia di

Lammermoor, the title role in Massenet's Manon, Marie in Donizetti's

La fille du régiment, the three heroines in Offenbach's Les contes

d'Hoffmann, Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Violetta in

Verdi's La traviata, and most notably Elisabetta in Roberto

Devereux.The New York Times noted, "In her prime her technique was

exemplary. She could dispatch coloratura roulades and embellishments,

capped by radiant high Ds and E-flats, with seemingly effortless

agility. She sang with scrupulous musicianship, rhythmic incisiveness

and a vivid sense of text." NPR commented, her voice was "Capable of

spinning a seemingly endless legato line, or bursting with crystalline

perfection into waves of dazzling fioriture and thrilling high notes."

After retiring from singing in 1980, she became the general manager of

the New York City Opera. In 1994, she became the chairwoman of Lincoln

Center and then, in 2002, of the Metropolitan Opera, stepping down in

2005. Sills lent her celebrity to further her charity work for the

prevention and treatment of birth defects.
Beverly Sills Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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