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Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Another famous non-smoker felled by lung cancer

Opera star Beverly Sills dies of cancer

I knew she was ailing, but checked the news tonight to find she'd died. She popularised opera with her upbeat personality.

Even as a seven-year-old she had chops...



Here is Beverly Sills singing Mozart's 'Ah vous dirai-je, maman' (or as some would recognise it, 'Twinkle, twinkle, little star'):



and her final performance:

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