Recent Research

Thanks to our indefatigable Vienna friend, Peter Clausen, a whole new trove of articles and photos from Lehmann’s Vienna years are available. Here’s a sample.

12 October 1916
Lehmann in the title role as Don Gil by Walter Braunfels May 1925
Lehmann on her wedding day May 1926
Lehmann in Intermezzo by Strauss January 1927
Lehmann as Leonore/Fidelio April 1927
Lehmann in the title role of Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane
Lehmann with her mother on the latter’s birthday September 1928
Lehmann with Toscanini’s wife on the opening day of the Salzburg Festival Fidelio July 1937
Lehmann in the title role as the Widerspänstige Zähmung
Lehmann in rarely seen photos from a performance of Otello
Toscanini conducting with Lehmann in Salzburg 1934
Lehmann sings Mozart’s “Die Verschweigung” as an encore in Salzburg
Lehmann headed to the US 1936
Top half of the page showing Lehmann as she sings the big aria in Fidelio
Lehmann in action as she sings the big aria from Fidelio 1936
Lehmann as the Marschallin in Act I of Der Rosenkavalier 1936
Lehmann with Tino Pattiera in the Vienna premier of Giordano’s Andre Chénier 1926
Lehmann as Turandot 1926
Lehmann with co-stars in Intermezzo by Strauss 1927
Lehmann at home in Vienna with the photos of her conductors etc.
Lehmann as Angele in the Opernball by Richard Heuberger 1931
Lehmann riding with her husband
Lehmann in a live photo as Eva in Die Meistersinger 1935
Lehmann with stage makeup ready to go on as Eva 1936
Lehmann as the Marschallin with Fritz Krenn as Ochs in Act I of Der Rosenkavalier 1935
Lehmann applies makeup before going on stage as the Marschallin 1935
Lehmann in the Mirabellpark Salzburg 1936
Lehmann as Desdemona 1935