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Opera companies around the globe this year marked the 90th birthday of the late Rosa Ponselle, but the diva’s lavish Maryland home is closing because the foundation that runs it is running out of money. Baltimore County zoning officials found that the road to Villa Pace--the estate where Ponselle lived for 40 years until her death May 25, 1981--and its parking lot were inadequate and needed to be repaved. “We had estimates done and it came to about $125,000 to repave the road,” said Elayne Duke, president of the Ponselle Foundation. “If we paid that, we would have no more money. That knocked the pins out from under us.”