Opera Singer. A soprano of wide repertoire, she shall probably be remembered for her presentations of Germanic and contemporary works. Born Evelyn Shulman, she was descended from a respected Chazan, graduated from Hunter College, and trained in voice, piano, and the French horn at Juilliard. An early marriage to a Dr. Lear took her to Northern Virginia where she made her operatic bow in an amateur production of Kurt Weill's "Down in the Valley". Returning home after her divorce she resumed her studies at Juilliard where she met and married Wagnerian baritone Thomas Stewart; in 1955 she created the role of Nina in Marc Blitzstein's "Reuben, Reuben" but was forced to make ends meet by singing in church choirs until a Fulbright Scholarship took her to Berlin for further study and her 1958 'official' debut as the Composer from Richard Strauss' "Ariadne auf Naxos", a role she was to reprise on quite a few occasions. Having sung the lead of Alban Berg's "Lulu" and earned a 1966 Grammy Award for a recording the same composer's "Wozzeck", Evelyn made her Metropolitan Opera bow on March 17, 1967, as Livinia in the world premiere of Martin David Levy's "Mourning Becomes Electra". Over her time in the world's leading opera houses she was designated Kammersangerin in Germany while her roles were to include both Cherubino and La Contessa from Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro", the title leads of Puccini's "Tosca" and "Manon Lescaut", Pamina of Mozart's "The Magic Flute", Mimi in Puccini's "La Boheme", Donna Evlira of Mozart's "Don Giovanni", and successively as her voice matured Sophie, Octavian, and the Marschallin in Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier". Evelyn was also a noted recitalist and oratorio singer in such pieces as Strauss' "Four Last Songs", Bach's "St. John Passion", and Brahms' "German Requiem" and even had a cameo as Nina Cavallini in the 1976 movie "Buffalo Bill and the Indians"; she 'retired' following a 1985 Metropolitan performance as the Marschallin though she continued to sing in Chicago, Dallas, and San Francisco albeit in such mezzo fare as the Countess Geschwitz from "Lulu" and the Witch of Englebert Humperdinck's "Hansel und Gretel". She was a professor at the University of Maryland for a number of years, was a noted master class presenter, joined Stewart for "Kiss Me Kate" and "The Merry Widow", and was heard with the Houston Grand Opera as late as 1999. Evelyn partnered with her husband in running the Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart Emerging Stars Program of Washington's Wagner Society, divided her final years between Florida and Maryland, and died in a hospice facility. She can be heard on several studio recordings and archived "live" performances.