OTAS, you found it

Sorry to obsess (I'm drinking). But these are some great scenes of Beverly Sills on YouTube. Check them out even if you don't know anything about opera. . . Effortless high notes, coloratura and expression.

Beverly Sills's final performance
Beverly Sills as Baby Doe
Beverly Sills sings the Mad Scene from Lucia Part 1
A scene from'Il Barbiere Di Siviglia'
Beverly Sills as Queen Elizabeth
The Muppet Show 1
The Muppet Show 2


You rose to artistic heights despite an industry that didn't like you, you raised a deaf and a retarded child, you took care of your sick husband, you raised the New York City opera to heights from financial ruin, you kept Lincoln Center (Julliard, the Metropolitan Opera, NYC Opera, NYC Ballet, NY Philharmonic, etc.) together when she was starting to come apart, you brought the new GM to the Met and let it out of its cave, you brought opera to the Muppet Show, Carol Burnett, Carson, and into Americans' rooms, and now -- I just saw you a month ago -- to the movies, you were also my first opera recording.

And now, finally, you rest in peace.

I miss ya, Bubbles.