Mimi Lerner (May 20, 1945 – March 29, 2007[1]) was a Polish-American mezzo-soprano, and later head of the voice department at Carnegie Mellon University.
[2][1] While a student at Queens College she attended a performance by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in 1967 where she met her future husband, the flautist Martin Lerner.
[2] Later NYCO assignments included Adalgisa in Norma, Bradamante in Alcina, Smeton in Anna Bolena, and leading roles in the Central Park trilogy (which consists of Deborah Drattell and Wendy Wasserstein's The Festival of Regrets, Michael Torke and A. R. Gurney's Strawberry Fields, and Robert Beaser and Terrence McNally's The Food of Love).
She appeared on the international stage at La Scala, the Théâtre du Châtelet, and the Glyndebourne Festival.
[2] She died in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Oakland from complications of a heart tumor, which had been diagnosed a dozen years earlier.