This is a translation of Lehmann’s typewritten essay on Strauss found in Lehmann auf Deutsch. She wrote a second one which can be found below. I have heard that Strauss is purported to have often said that he had “discovered” me. That is not entirely true, as I...
This is a translation of Lehmann’s typewritten article on Puccini found in Lehmann auf Deutsch. Great excitement in the Vienna Opera: Puccini came to the last rehearsals of his three one-act operas “Soeur Angelica”, “Il Tabarro” and “Gianni...
This is a translation of Lehmann’s typewritten article “Konzertbegleiter” found in Lehmann auf Deutsch. Professor Ferdinand Foll [who had been a personal friend of Hugo Wolf] from the Vienna State Opera, was the first to accompany me in so-called...
Possible Addition? We have discovered this single typewritten page that Lehmann has obviously preceded with other information, for this finds “2” at its top. Though if Lehmann were contemplating writing a second memoire this wouldn’t do justice to...
by Gary Hickling I wrote this for the 1988 Lotte Lehmann Centennial held at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The intervening years may have altered some of my thoughts, but there is still plenty of useful information in these pages.
Beneath the Southern Cross The first page is missing, so I’ve translated one from Lehmann German version of this diary. I want to keep a real diary about my trip to Australia – I’ve made it my goal. I’m curious to see whether I’ll be able...
