Dieses Zitat stammt vom großen Komponisten Richard Strauss, und ziert den Grabstein Lotte Lehmanns auf dem Wiener Zentralfriedhof. Wer die Stimme Lehmanns von den erfreulich vielen existierenden Tonaufnahmen kennt, kann sich dem Reiz ihres leuchtenden Timbres nicht...
Kathy Walsh send a photo of one of Lehmann’s paintings. She writes: “The painting is signed, but you can’t see it now that we had it framed. Also, there is a note on the old mat that says ‘The Cliffs at Hope Ranch’. The woman who gave it to us was Barbara...
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...
