That's "Sills", not "Hills"

ANTHONY TOMMASINI, in his splendid appreciation of Beverly Sills for the Times today, reminds us that the people's diva gave us the greatest one-liner in the history of opera, dismissing her role in the 1965 premiere of Luigi Nono's 12-tone opera, "Intolleranza", thus:

Luigi and his opera were both Nono's.

(The piece also contains the most charming misprint I've seen in the Times for a long while: it describes La Scala as "the most scared of all Italian opera houses".)

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