Beverly Sills and her husband soon learned that their daughter was deaf.

贝弗利·希尔斯和她的丈夫很快就知道他们的女儿是聋子。

It helped launch the careers of Beverly Sills, Renee Fleming and Placido Domingo.

这座歌剧院帮助贝弗利·希尔斯、蕾妮·弗莱明以及普拉西多·多明戈开启了歌唱生涯。

Over the next twenty years Beverly Sills became known as the queen of American opera.

在接下来的20年里，贝弗利·希尔斯被人们称为“美国歌剧女王”。

We leave you with Beverly Sills singing the role of Violetta in Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata.

我们将以贝弗利·希尔斯在朱塞佩·威尔第的歌剧《茶花女》中演唱维奥莱塔一角结束今天的节目。

That was Beverly Sills performing a song from the opera The Tales of Hoffman by the French composer Jacques Offenbach.

下面这首是贝弗利·希尔斯表演的由法国作曲家雅克·奥芬巴赫创作的歌剧中的一首歌。

This difficult aria gives a good example of the sweet and expressive voice that made Beverly Sills famous.

这首有难度的咏叹调是展现希尔斯甜美而富有表现力的声音的一个很好的例子，正是这幅嗓音让她成名。

In time, Beverly Sills returned to work. Here she talks about how her family's situation changed her professionally.

贝弗利·希尔斯及时重新开始了歌唱。在这里，她谈到了自己家庭的状况如何改变了她的职业生涯。

Also that year, Beverly Sills met Peter Greenough while she was performing in Cleveland, Ohio. She married him the next year and moved to Cleveland.

同年，贝弗利·希尔斯在俄亥俄州克利夫兰演出时遇到了彼得·格里诺。第二年她嫁给了他，并且搬到了克利夫兰。

Beverly Sills retired from singing in nineteen eighty. But she did not leave the opera world. She became director of the New York City Opera.

贝弗利·希尔斯于1980年从歌坛退役。但她没有离开歌剧界。她成为了纽约市歌剧院的导演。

Beverly Sills died in two thousand seven of lung cancer. She was seventy-eight. She once said that she had never been a happy woman.

2007年，贝弗利·希尔斯死于肺癌。享年78岁。她曾经说过，她从来都不是一个快乐的女人。

Today we tell about Beverly Sills. Her clear soprano voice and lively spirit made her one of the most famous performers in the world of opera.

今天我们讲述贝弗利·希尔斯的故事。她清晰的女高音和活泼的精神使她成为世界上最著名的歌剧演员之一。

One critic wrote that if he had made a list of the wonders of New York City to give a traveler, he would put Beverly Sills as Manon at the top of the list.

一位评论家写道，如果他把纽约市的奇观列出来送给一个旅行者，他会把贝弗利·希尔斯作为《玛侬》排在首位。