 On May 31, 1994, the soprano succumbed to leukemia at the age of eighty-five, at the Sharon Country Manor, in Connecticut.She was buried in the South Dover Rural Cemetery, in Wingdale, New York.In 2005, reviewing the DVD release of the Concert Version of "Aida", Ira Siff, in "Opera News", noted that "there is a sense of occasion here, as the eighty-two-year-old Toscanini … unleashes a performance of immense power.