Any list of the greatest operatic singers of modern times will include, somewhere near the top, the name Beverly Sills.
The statuesque soprano was an audience favorite for decades. Time Magazine once dubbed her :America’s Queen of Opera.”
By the late ‘60s the singer whose nickname was Bubbles had also become a very popular TV talk show guests.
But she also struggled with personal crises.
Her daughter Muffy was deaf and suffered from multiple sclerosis. Her son Bucky, born two years later, was severely mentally disabled.
In 1988 Sills wrote her autobiography. And that’s when I met Bubbles.
So here now, from 1987, Beverly Sills.
Beverly Sills died in 2007. She was 78. Her daughter Muffy died in 2016, at age 57.
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