Brenda Lewis

**Brenda Lewis** (Maris 2, 1921 - Satumba 16, 2017) yar wasan kwaikwayo ce ta Amurka, 'yar wasan kwaikwayo kuma 'yar wasan operatic soprano, kuma ita ce daraktar Opera kuma mai koyar da waka.

## Tarihi
Ta karanci pre-medicine a takaice at (Pennsylvania State University)inda kuma ta kasance memba a kulob din glee. Daga nan ta sami gurbin karatu a Cibiyar Kiɗa ta Curtis inda ta kasance ɗalibin Emilio de Gogorza da Marion Freschl. Yayin da take daliba a Curtis, Lewis ta fara wasan opera nata na farko a watan Disamban shekarar 1939 tana da shekaru 18 a matsayin 'Prima giovinetta' a Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro tare da Sylvan Levin's Philadelphia Opera Company (POC). Ta bayyana a wasu karin ayyuka da POC a cikin shekaru uku masu zuwa,ciki har da Esmeralda a cikin (The Bartered Bride) (1940), Minni a cikin Die Fledermaus (1940), Giulietta a cikin Tatsuniyoyi na Hoffmann (1941), Marschallin a cikin Der Rosenkavalier (1941), Yarinya a Spiel oder Ernst (1941), da Dorabella a cikin Così fan tutte (1942).

### Aiki

May 1944 Lewis ta fara halarta ta Manhattan, New York City a Broadway tare da Kamfanin New Opera kamar yadda Hanna Glawari a cikin Bazawar Merry ta Lehar gaban Jan Kiepura.Tare da wannan kamfani an kuma gan ta a Broadway a shekarar 1944 a matsayin jarumar take a Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's Il segreto di Susanna.A cikin shekarar 1948 ta koma Broadway don nuna rawar da ƙungiyar Chorus ta mata ta taka a farkon shirin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia na Amurka. A shekara mai zuwa ta ƙirƙiri matsayin Birdie Hubbard a cikin farkon duniya na Marc Blitzstein's Regina. Daga baya ta bayyana matsayin take a waccan opera a New York City Opera (NYCO) a cikin shekarar 1953 da 1958. Ta sake komawa Broadway sau biyu a lokacin aikinta, duka a cikin kiɗa: kamar yadda Lotta Leslie a cikin Yarinya a Pink Tights (1954) tare da Tauraruwar ballet ta Faransa Zizi Jeanmaire da soprano Marni Nixonkuma a matsayin Mme. Cole a cikin Cafe Crown (1964).

A ƙarshen shekarar 1944/farkon 1945 Lewis ya yi rawar Saffi a cikin Gypsy Baron a cikin balaguron balaguron Amurka na NYCO wanda shine ɗan kwakwalwa na impresario Sol Hurok.] Daga nan ta yi ta farko ta Cibiyar Lincoln tare da NYCO a matsayin Santuzza a cikin Cavalleria rusticana. Ta ci gaba da rera wasu ƙarin ayyuka tare da NYCO a cikin shekaru 20 masu zuwa, ciki har da Cio-Cio-San a Madama Butterfly, Donna Elvira a cikin Don Giovanni, Idiomantes a cikin Idomeneo, Marenka a cikin Bride Bartered, Marguerite a Faust, da take. rawar a Carmen da Salome da sauransu. A cikin shekarar 1959 ta nuna Zinida a cikin ainihin aikin Robert Ward's He Who Gets Slapped. Matsayinta na ƙarshe tare da NYCO shine a cikin wani farkon duniya: rawar take a cikin Lizzie Borden na Jack Beeson a shekarar 1965. WGBH ta yi fim ɗin wannan aikin a Boston kuma an watsa shi a cikin ƙasa akan PBS a cikin 1967. Ayyukanta na ƙarshe a Met shine Marie a Wozzeck a cikin Fabrairu 1965. 

Lewis ta ba da wasanta na farko na duniya a Opéra de Montréal a 1945. Ta yi bayyanuwa da yawa a Teatro Municipal a Rio de Janeiro a cikin shekarar 1940s da 1950s, gami da matsayin Venus, Musetta, Santuzza, Marguerite, Marina, da Donna Elvira.  A Vienna Volksoper ta nuna matsayin taken a cikin farar hula na Austrian na Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate (1956) da Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun (1957). Ta rera waƙa da yawa tare da San Francisco Opera daga cikin shekarar 1950 zuwa 1952, gami da Cherubino a cikin Aure na Figaro, Donna Elvira, Giorgetta a Il tabarro, The Marschallin, Musetta, da Salome. A cikin 1956 ta nuna Salome don wasan opera na farko da Houston Grand Opera ta gabatar. A cikin 1960 ta ƙirƙiri rawar Sara a farkon wasan opera na Kirsimeti na Philip Bezanson na Golden Child wanda gidan wasan kwaikwayo na NBC Opera ya ba da izini ga talabijin..  A cikin shekarar 1965 ta yi Marie a Wozzeck a Lyric Opera na Chicago tare da Geraint Evans a cikin taken taken. Ɗaya daga cikin wasan opera na ƙarshe da ta yi shine kamar Rosalinde a Kamfanin Grand Opera na Philadelphia a ƙarƙashin sandar Carlo Moresco a cikin Disamban shekarar 1967. Bayan ta yi ritaya daga wasan opera a ƙarshen 1960s, Lewis ta ba da lokacinta don shiryawa da kuma jagorantar wasan kwaikwayo a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na New Haven Opera daga shekarar 1963 zuwa 1973. Daga nan ta shiga sashin koyar da murya a Hartt School of Music a 1973 inda ta koyar da murya da murya shirya wasan opera dalibi na shekaru masu yawa. Tana da 'ya'ya biyu, Leo da Michael Asen, tare da madugu kuma violist Simon Asen (1911-1984), wanda ta aura daga shekarar 1944 har zuwa saki a 1959. Jim kadan bayan rabuwarta da Asen, ta auri injiniya Benjamin Cooper wanda ya kafa kungiyar fasaha ta Amurka. Ta haifi 'yarsu mai suna Edith Cooper a shekara ta 1960. Sun kasance da aure har zuwa mutuwar Cooper a 1991.

## Mutuwa
ta mutu a ranar 16 ga Satumban shekarar 2017 a gidanta da ke Connecticut tana da shekara 96.

## Mutuwa
ta mutu a ranar 16 ga Satumban shekarar 2017 a gidanta da ke Connecticut tana da shekara 96.

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