The magic of Beverly Sills / Nancy Guy.

With her superb coloratura soprano, passion for the world of opera, and down-to-earth personality, Beverly Sills made high art accessible to millions from the time of her meteoric rise to stardom in 1966 until her death in 2007. An unlikely pop culture phenomenon, Sills was equally at ease on talk s...

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Main Author: Guy, Nancy, 1960-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Series:Music in American life.
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