Must everything great singers record be great? We are interested in a broad range of their performances because we want to discover as much about their talent as possible. Lotte Lehmann seldom fails. Her enthusiasm, commitment, and ardor come across in spite of...
I know that you may have all these photos, but on the chance that you don’t, or just haven’t seen them in a long while, here they are, with my captions. Aloha, Gary with me in a barong tagalog and jaime in his polo barong, we can assume this was during a...
This bio is substantially accurate. You’ll find corrections and amendments in brackets. Shelley’s ‘To a skylark’ might have been dedicated to Lotte Lehmann, so evocatively does the poem recall the phenomenon of her voice. Indeed the enchantment...
New York Times Jan. 24, 1950 From Dr. Kater’s book on Lehmann: Never Sang for Hitler From Santa Barbara archives The statement from the Lotte Lehmann Collection at UCSB includes the following: “Series X Artwork, includes the hundreds of oil paintings,...
When critics, reviewers, and the public listen to Lotte Lehmann’s recordings, or heard her live in opera or recital, they didn’t usually choose their favorite performances, but it’s fun and even illuminating to know what various people said and now, say about her...
JA goes to NYC
