“It was difficult” Lehmann said “To control myself when Jon Vickers sang “Winterstürme” from Walküre. The moment he stopped was where I had come in as Sieglinde.” Review of Irving Kolodin in the April 30, 1966 issue...
I was too young to have heard Lehmann live in either opera or recital modes, but have always heard the same admonition: “The recordings, no matter how good, are nothing compared to experiencing Lehmann live!” Here’s what her friend, colleague, and later, biographer...
The brick stairs were built by Frances Holden. Swimming pool half-way down the property, showing a bit of the house above. Holden loved books and built her own bookshelves throughout the house. Though I saw Lehmann teach in the living room (downstairs), later they...
Must everything great singers record be great? We are interested in a broad range of their performances because we want to discover as much about their talent as possible. Lotte Lehmann seldom fails. Her enthusiasm, commitment, and ardor come across in spite of...
I know that you may have all these photos, but on the chance that you don’t, or just haven’t seen them in a long while, here they are, with my captions. Aloha, Gary with me in a barong tagalog and jaime in his polo barong, we can assume this was during a...
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...
