Brenda Lewis passed away on Saturday in her home in Westport, CT. She was born on March 2, 1921. After a long and critically acclaimed career singing and acting on Broadway and, among others, at City Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, she was a professor of voice and acting at Hartt.
Here is the obituary that appeared in the NY Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/16/arts/music/brenda-lewis-dead-opera-soprano.html