Beverly Sills Quotes
Opera became popular in Texas the same way it did in a lot of previously isolated regions of the nation. It started with money. In the case of Texas, it was oil money, and it made a lot of people very rich, very fast.
Citations
Sills, Beverly, and Lawrence Linderman. Beverly: An Autobiography. Bantam Books, 1987.
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Beverly Sills was an American operatic soprano whose peak career was between the 1950s and 1970s.