RENATA TEBALDI, the Italian soprano who was one of the biggest stars at New York’s Metropolitan Opera and Italy’s La Scala, died yesterday. She was 82.

Renata Tebaldi, an Italian soprano who was one of the biggest stars at New York’s Metropolitan Opera and Italy’s La Scala, died today, her doctor said. She was 82.

Luciano Pavarotti has sung his last opera on stage after more than four decades of the high Cs that transformed him from an insurance salesman to perhaps the most widely-beloved classical singer ever.