Opera Singers Gallery The Ballad of Baby Doe

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We are greatly saddened by the untimely death of Beverly Sills, of cancer, at the age of 78. Her definitive recording of The Ballad of Baby Doe took the opera to the world and, 49 years later, remains one of her enduring legacies.

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Francis Bible	Walter Cassel	Leyna Gabriele	Martha Lipton
Ruth Welting	Richard Fredricks and Ruth Welting	Beverly Sills	Norman Treigle
	Joanna Mongiardo	Virginia Copeland
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