NEW YORK Some people called her Bubbles. Others knew her as "the diva next door." But to most of the world, Brooklyn-born soprano Beverly Sills was America's first prima donna a child star who sang ...

Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born opera diva who was a global icon of can-do American culture with her dazzling voice, bubbly personality and management moxie in the arts world, died July 2 of cancer, ...

NEW YORK -- Beverly Sills, the opera diva who won fans worldwide with her sparkling voice and charming personality and later became a powerhouse in the New York arts world, is gravely ill with cancer.