I treat the word “friend” rather broadly. On this page you’ll see some of the greatest musicians of Lehmann’s time, as well as Lehmann with her dogs and other animals. Some of these friends are really colleagues, but I know that Lehmann counted the conductor/pianist Bruno Walter as a friend, as well as bass-baritone Richard Mayr, soprano Elisabeth Schumann, companion Frances Holden, and of course her husband, Otto. There’s an obvious non-friend below and that’s conductor Clemens Krauss (who wanted Usurleac, his mistress and later wife, to sing roles that Lehmann was singing).
LL with former contralto Ruth MichaelisFour famous singers on boardwith MichaelisA different photo from the one at the top: LL with Christa LudwigLL with unknown womanRisë Stevens with LL (on the set of the movie Chocolate Soldier 1955)LL with Grace Bumbrywith Toscanini after a peasant wedding at which she sangThomas Mann, ?, LL, Bruno WalterWith Lisa della Casa, 1955 (Re-opening of Vienna OperaAboard ship: Bruno Walter, LL, George ClemenseauLL painting Risë StevensReception for LL in 1967 with Shige Iano and Erna BergerLL with Nelson Eddie 1938LL with Frances HoldenLL with three of her four step-childrenElse (BW’s wife), Lotte (BW’s daughter), Bruno Walter, LL