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The Stars Come Out for Sills

The New York Sun Mon, 17 Sep 2007 9:55 PM PDTLate Sunday afternoon, the Metropolitan Opera staged a tribute to Beverly Sills, the great American soprano, who passed away in July. The house was full of people, and full of adoration. And many have noted the "irony" of this event: a Met celebration of Sills. She made her Met debut late - in 1975, at age 46, when she had only a few years left in her career. (She'd been singing pretty much ...