Quilt Dedication Susan and David Kuehn (David was president of the Music Academy of the West from 1993-2004) sent me a beautiful hand-crocheted table cloth with satin medallions in the corners all devoted to Lotte Lehmann’s career in opera and art song. The first one...
We have often been asked to offer the reading that Lehmann recorded of Rilke’s Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Coronets Christophe Rilke, and we have found it in iBook Volume 7 (German Interviews). Lehmann’s dramatic reading is powerful and engrossing....
Recent research reveals the payments (per opera performance) that Lehmann received at the Metropolitan Opera. You’ll see other well-known singers of the time, and the amounts they were paid. Remember that this was shortly after the Depression. Also, the dollar in 1935...
A recently discovered single page of Lehmann recalling her life, but probably written in the late 1940s
Hand-written Notes on Die schöne Müllerin • Though missing its first page and the ending, here’s a recent discovery, in Lehmann’s handwriting, of her thoughts on Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin.
Mme Lehmann never met Judith Sutcliffe. She was friends with Frances Holden, but did so much to investigate Lehmann’s life, help publish Glass’ Lehmann bio, worked on the LLL Newletters, and reported on her Vienna visit for the Lehmann Centennial, that she...
