**FILE**Former opera singer Beverly Sills sings for the first time in 10 years with country and western star Randy Travis during the taping of a talk show pilot in New York, in this Aug. 13, 1988 file photo. Sills, the Brooklyn-born opera diva who was a global icon of can-do American culture with her dazzling voice, bubbly personality and management moxie in the arts world, died Monday July 2, 2007 of cancer, said her manager, Edgar Vincent. She was 78. (AP Photo/Stf-File)