An Appraisal<br> Taking Opera to the Heights and Down to Earth By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Beverly Sills showed Americans an approachable face of a sometimes-forbidding art form.
Today is Saturday, September 26, 2026 Broadway Baby Birthdays: Bob Kirsh Lawrence Leritz Thandani Mavimbela Mary Beth Hurt Lou Myers Philip Bosco Patrick O'Neal Carolyn Tanner Julie London Jacqueline DeWit Donald Cook George Gershwin Richard Lockridge Jay Adler Glenn Hunter Gaby Fay Frank Crumit T.S. Eliot William Bailey Theresa Maxwell Conover Eleanor Gates Edmund Gwenn Minna Gale Haynes Ben Shenkman Mark Haddon John Gray Jerry Weintraub Robert Darnell Antonio Moreno Victoria Mack Michael Weller Joyce Jameson Shimon Wincelberg Anita Dangler Barbara Britton Franklin Lacey Eva Condon