Asleep on her sofa after driving my baritone friend from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, I could never have guessed that a music lesson with this old German lady would change my life. I certainly didn’t snooze during any more of these lessons in the interpretation of...
This presentation is designed to illustrate and illuminate numerous aspects of Lotte Lehmann’s art and life with photos, videos, and especially audio examples of her singing. I am a lifelong admirer of Lehmann the singer, the teacher, and the person. When I met her in...
Lehmann sings Schubert’s An die Musik < Table of Contents Next >
Nupen in 1955 At the age of twenty, I travelled from London to Vienna by train, third class, for the reopening of the Vienna State Opera. That took place in November 1955. It was the biggest musical event in Europe since the start of the war in 1939. I was unable to...
Lotte Lehmann & Her Legacy Volume 1 By Gary Hickling Before the preliminary material (Introduction, etc.) you can view Lehmann on her 1937 Australian tour singing to a Kookaburra. The Introduction is focused on how to use the various aspects of the iBook...
