Read more Beverly Sills stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/3945/beverly-sills.htmlhttp://img1-cdn.newser.com/images/newser-black250x40.gifhttp://www.newser.com/2012 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorSat, 26 May 2012 01:15:06 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/3778/opera-star-beverly-sills-dead-at-78.htmlColleen Barry<img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=9992&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401034329' border='0' />Soprano Beverly Sills, whose ebullient personality and brilliant singing voice not only made her a star but helped demystify opera in America, died Monday night in her Manhattan home from inoperable lung cancer, the New York Times reports. She was 78. Sills spent much of her singing career with the...Beverly Sills sings the role of Norina in Donizetti's "Don Pasquale, " at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, in this May 1980 file photo. 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 Monday, July 2, 2007, of cancer, said her manager, Edgar Vincent. She was 78. (AP Photo, File)http://www.newser.com/story/3778/opera-star-beverly-sills-dead-at-78.htmlTue, 03 Jul 2007 04:44:59 CDT