Soprano:
Born: January 8, 1926; Died: July 1, 2012.
Evelyn Lear, who has died aged 86, was one of the two American star sopranos – the other was Catherine Gayer – nurtured by Peter Diamand during his directorship of the Edinburgh Festival. Quick to make use of her extraordinary talents, he booked her in 1966 for his very first Festival programmes, when Alban Berg and Robert Schumann were the featured composers.
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