Sad news: Beverly Sills dies at 78

[NYT Breaking News, above]

Anthony Tommasini, New York Times
David Patrick Stearns, Philadelphia Inquirer
Tim Page, Washington Post
Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle
Justin Davidson, Newsday
Steve Smith, Time Out New York
Chris Pasles, Los Angeles Times
Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times
Brian Kellow, Opera News
John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune
Mark Feeney, Boston Globe
Keith Powers, Boston Herald
Tim Smith, Baltimore Sun
Katrine Ames, Newsweek
Marc Shulgold, Rocky Mountain News
Howard Kissel, NY Daily News
Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News
Daniel Webster and Matthew Westphal, Playbill Arts
Tom Huizenga, NPR report
Manuela Hoelterhoff, Bloomberg News
Joal Ryan, E! Online
Anastasia Tsiouclas, Gramophone
Elysa Gardner, USA Today
Robert Baxter, Courier Post

Wire reports: AP(1, 2, 3), Reuters, Bloomberg, UPI, AFP

Carol Burnett remembers friend, NPR: All Things Considered
Public Radio Marketplace commentary: Sills pulled corporations into the arts
NYT blog: City Room: Remembering Beverly Sills
Tommasini: Taking Opera to the Heights and Down to Earth
Hartford Courant, editorial: Beverly Sills, an appreciation
NY Daily News, editorial: Beverly Sills, 1929-2007
NYT: Lincoln Center mourns