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One of America's best-known opera singers, soprano Beverly Sills, dies from lung cancer in New York.

Legendary Spanish soprano Victoria de los Angeles dies in hospital aged 81 after a bronchial infection.

The Guardian and The Times on the English National Opera's The Barber of Seville.

Joanna Robertson recalls how the people of Rome deserted the city in droves to escape the intense heat of summer.

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