Favorite Lehmann Recordings

When critics, reviewers, and the public listen to Lotte Lehmann’s recordings, or heard her live in opera or recital, they didn’t usually choose their favorite performances, but it’s fun and even illuminating to know what various people said and now, say about her...

Lehmann sings Frauenliebe und -leben

You can hear Lehmann sing Schumann’s Frauenliebe und -leben on different recordings as well as master class recordings (when they exist) on the original Apple iBook Volume 4 or in our adaptation for this website. Below, I’ve gathered together...

LL Teaches the role of the Marschallin

Judith Beckman(n) and her husband Irving, worked with Lehmann in master classes in the 1960s and beyond, as you’ll read from this recent (2016) correspondence. “We have no tapes of our private lessons, which took place in what may have been in Mme...

LL’s Reviews as the Marschallin

Steichen’s 1934 portrait of Lehmann as the Marschallin Herman Klein: Writing about a Rosenkavalier performance conducted by Beecham [at Covent Garden], Klein had complaints about several singers, but then wrote that Beecham “had an even finer Marschallin than Margaret...

LL’s Marschallin

This page will attempt to bring together all the information that’s available on this website about Lehmann’s portrayal of the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss . Since Lehmann is best known for that role it’s interesting to see where she sang the...