Evelyn Lear , nee Evelyn Schulman ( born Evelyn Lear , January 8, 1926 , New York - July 1, 2012 [1] , Sandy Springs ) is an American opera singer ( soprano ).
| Evelyn Lear | |
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 Evelyn Lear | |
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| Birth name | Evelyn Schulman |
| Full name | Evelyn Lear |
| Date of Birth | January 8, 1926 |
| Place of Birth | New York , USA |
| Date of death | July 1, 2012 (86 years) |
| Place of death | Sandy Springs , MD , USA |
| A country |  USA |
| Professions | singer |
| Years of activity | 1959–2009 |
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| Genres | opera |
| Awards | Grammy |
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Biography
From a Jewish family. She studied at Hunter College, New York University , the Juilliard School of Music, where her mastermind was Sergius Kagen and where she met her future second husband, baritone bass Thomas Stewart (they married in 1955 ; Evelyn's first husband was a doctor and political activist Walter Lear. ). Both of them went to study at the Berlin High School of Music in 1957 under the Fultbright program .
Creativity
She made her debut as a composer in Richard Strauss's opera Ariadne na Naxos in the German Opera . Her Austrian debut was the title role in the concert performance of Lulu Alban Berg ( 1960 ). She played in the cinema and on the stage: she played the role of Nina Cavallini in the film Robert Altman Buffalo Bill and the Indians ( 1976 ), in 1989 she acted as Queen Elizabeth I in the musical Elizabeth and Essex (based on the play by Maxwell Anderson ). Actively sang works of contemporary composers - Johnny Johnson Kurt Weil , Dismissal in the city of Bernstein , the betrothal at San Domingo Werner Egka , Mourning - the fate of Electra Marvin David Levy, Thomas Pastieri Gull , Rudolf Kelterborn's Cherry Orchard , etc.
Selected Repertoire
Purcell ( Dido and Aeneas ), Monteverdi ( Poppea's Coronation ), Johann Sebastian Bach ( St. John’s Passion ), Handel ( Julius Caesar ), Mozart (The Magic Flute , The Figaro Wedding , All Doing , Don Juan ), Berlioz ( The Trojans ), Vaher (The Flying Dutchman ), Mussorgsky ( Boris Godunov ), Brahms ( German Requiem ), Verdi ( Nabucco , Falstaff , Othello ), Bizet ( Carmen ), Tchaikovsky ( Eugene Onegin ), Legar (The Widow, ), R. Strauss ( Cavalier of the Rose , Arabella , Four Last Songs ), Mahler (The Magic Horn of a Boy , Sad Song ), H.Wolf (Song to Mörike Poems), Schönber d (Quartet for soprano and strings), Berg ( Wozzeck , Lulu ), Bartok ( Castle Duke Bluebeard ), Janacek ( Glagolitic Mass ), Kshenek ( Johnny picks up ), etc.
Creative Collaboration
She has performed with such conductors as Claudio Abbado , Karl Böhm , Adrian Boult , Pierre Boulez , Colin Davis , James Conlon , André Cluytens , Carlos Kleiber , Rafael Kubelik , James Levine , Erich Lyaynsdorf , Lorin Maazel , Zubin Mehta , Seiji Ozawa , Eugene Ormandy , Karl Richter , Michael Tilson Thomas , Horst Stein and others.
Recognition
Grammy Award ( 1966 ). The title of Kammersängerin , awarded by the Senate of Berlin , and other awards.