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...
No identification of the photographer in this photo nor the photographer who took the photo. Overlook the watermark over LL’s face and notice how serene she looks in spite of the weird device that’s within a few feet of her. Famous Photographers When we...
Lehmann was fascinated with painting on tiles. She painted opera scenes, abstracts, and portraits. Two of her abstract tiles were recently offered on eBay. One could see many tiles that she painted on each step-rise of the stairs in her home.
Thomas Mann’s Favorites You’ll notice that two of Lehmann’s recordings made his “favorites” list. He was also personal friends with both Lehmann and Bruno Walter. Below: a photo of them all together. You can read (and listen to) the list...
Quilt Dedication Susan and David Kuehn (David was president of the Music Academy of the West from 1993-2004) sent me a beautiful hand-crocheted table cloth with satin medallions in the corners all devoted to Lotte Lehmann’s career in opera and art song. The first one...
We have often been asked to offer the reading that Lehmann recorded of Rilke’s Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Coronets Christophe Rilke, and we have found it in iBook Volume 7 (German Interviews). Lehmann’s dramatic reading is powerful and engrossing....
