Here is a WBUR (Boston) interview with Lehmann broadcast on 27 January 1967. The program was called: Hall of Song: The “Met,” 1883-1966. This was the 1933-1935 portion of the series. The Lehmann interview of this broadcast begins at around 5 minutes and...
Rosenkavalier 1939 Improved One of the other Lehmann-related sources has been Richard Caniell of Canada’s Immortal Performances. First, he completely re-worked the 1939 broadcast from the Met, of Rosenkavalier. This was an important performance...
We have an article from 17 October 1938 that was news to us: Lotte Lehmann’s Records Banned in Austria: The Austrian authorities have announced a ban on records by Lotte Lehmann, Metropolitan Opera soprano. (She recently took out her first citizenship papers in...
Eternal Flight in the L.A. Times Lehmann researcher Ester Gonzáles sent photos of her discovery of a newspaper offering Eternal Flight, Lotte Lehmann’s complete novel (in English translation). The book of that title has 262 pages, so it’s a rather long work to be...
Famous Photographers When we recently discovered that Lotte Lehmann’s 1947 photograph taken by George Platt Lynes is in the National Portrait Gallery, it reminded us that she had been photographed a lot throughout her life. Many of the photos were taken by Europe and...
Lehmann was fascinated with painting on tiles. She painted opera scenes, abstracts, and portraits. Two of her abstract tiles were recently offered on eBay. One could see many tiles that she painted on each step-rise of the stairs in her home.
