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Lear, Evelyn

LC control no.n 81134931
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingLear, Evelyn
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Variant(s)Shulman, Evelyn
Birth date1926
Death date2006
Profession or occupationSoprano
Found inDie lustigen Weiber von Windsor. [Phonodisc] 1964.
Boris Godunov [SR] p1986: container (Evelyn Lear; b. Brooklyn, 1928)
New Grove dict. of opera (Lear (née Shulman), Evelyn; b. Jan. 8, 1926, Brooklyn, NY; American soprano)
Int. ww in mus., 16th ed. (Lear, Evelyn; b. Jan. 8, 1926, Brooklyn, N.Y.; soprano)
Washington post WWW site, July 2, 2012 (in obituary published July 1: Evelyn Lear; b. Evelyn Shulman Jan, 8, 1926, Brooklyn; m. Walter Lear (div.), Thomas Stewart (d. 2006); d. July 1, Sandy Spring [Md.], aged 86; soprano who became a preeminent interpreter of contemporary opera and enlivened the international stage with her commanding portrayal of characters she called "neurotic modern heroines")