We are happy and proud to list some of the recent additions to the Lotte Lehmann League website. • Though not finished, the first eight volumes (of nine) of the iBook series Lotte Lehmann & Her Legacy have been converted to access on this site, complete with...
You can read what Paul Jackson in his Saturday Afternoons at the Old Met, The Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts, 1931-1950, wrote about the 7 January 1939 broadcast of Der Rosenkavalier. Below you’ll find the music; I have only included those portions of the...
Unpublished Lehmann poetry discovered in the Special Collections at UCSB Lehmann’s poetry from her 1969 book Gedichte Lehmann’s poetry from the 1923 book Verse in Prosa Below are various Lehmann poems from random sources From December 3, 1932 Es klingt ein...
When the Met was on tour to Boston and performed, Die Walküre for the first time uncut, not only did Erich Leinsdorf conduct, but the cast consisted of some of the greatest Wagner singers of the time: Lehmann sang Sieglinde, Melchior sang Siegmund, List sang Hunding,...
From The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta Trapp, 1949 On a memorable day in August, 1936, we were sitting together once more behind the screen of pines in our park. It was late in the afternoon, a Saturday. Everybody had stopped working and changed...
