Radio Interview

Eine Preußin mit Herz und Charme Lotte Lehmann zum 30. Todestag Sie war zwar eine gebürtige Preußin, ihre künstlerische Heimat wurde aber Wien: Lotte Lehmann, deren Geburtstag sich am 26. August zum 30. Mal jährt. Die “Opernheilige”, wie Toscanini sie...

Vanity Fair 1992 Text

In 1910, Enrico Caruso was so captivated by a twenty-two-year-old German soprano singing her first season at the Hamburg State Opera that he cried, “She has the voice of an Italian!” Lotte Lehmann also enchanted the likes of Puccini, Klemperer, and even...

Old Met Farewell

“It was difficult” Lehmann said “To control myself when Jon Vickers sang “Winterstürme” from Walküre. The moment he stopped was where I had come in as Sieglinde.”  Review of Irving Kolodin in the April 30, 1966 issue...