It’s a shame that such experts as these didn’t have a chance to interview Lehmann earlier. She’s 85 in this interview and her answers can be inaccurate and thus difficult to know what to believe.
Music: Lotte’s Secrets Monday, Jan. 13, 1958 TIME Magazine (an article referring to Lehmann’s master classes in 1957) “How can it really be that I was once the little girl and that one day I will be the woman?…How can it happen, when, after...
FOREWARD A Personal Note For two and a half years I was Lotte Lehmann’s assistant at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. I accompanied master classes in lieder and opera, coached students, and occasionally assisted with staging. During those years...