LL’s letter to Consel General Young on behalf of Ulanowsky LL’s reference to Fidelio is to that opera that she directed at the Music Academy of the West. Probably 1937
It’s important to remember that these excerpts were recorded onto acetates right there in the hall. There is surface noise, audience coughs, stage clatter, and distortion cause by the microphone picking up a timpani when, really, a vocal line was desired. The...
1934: Met debut, recitals in the US, and her return to Europe 1934 reviews, from Boston recital 9 March 1934. Oil painting of Lehmann, possibly as Manon Lescaut, hanging at the Music Academy of the West. Painting in pastel of Lehmann as the Marschallin at the MAW...
From the Lotte Lehmann Archives of the Special Collections at the UCSB Library, the specialists sent me the following Lehmann recordings. They were all listed as “test pressings,” but only some of them were that. The following list (in alphabetical order)...
This radio broadcast was “preserved” on acetates. You’ll hear then, that there are many breaks, sometimes at crucial moments. It just means that the person recording needed to take off the needle, remove one acetate, place another on the turntable,...
Here are the actual pages documenting the tapes of Lehmann’s live performances that are part of the Rhodes Collection held at the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston.
