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
You can hear Lehmann sing Schumann’s Frauenliebe und -leben on different recordings as well as master class recordings (when they exist) on the original Apple iBook Volume 4 or in our adaptation for this website. Below, I’ve gathered together...
Judith Beckman(n) and her husband Irving, worked with Lehmann in master classes in the 1960s and beyond, as you’ll read from this recent (2016) correspondence. “We have no tapes of our private lessons, which took place in what may have been in Mme...
