Ira Hirschmann

Below, you’ll find Hilary Finch’s response to Lehmann’s recording of Winterreise from the book, Song on Record, I Lieder. And read what Lehmann herself has to say about a woman singing “men’s” songs. Ira Hirschmann was the founder...

Koldofsky

Gwendolyn Koldofsky  was Lehmann’s final pianist. First a brief bio and then much more information about this remarkable woman. And you can listen to an interview with one of her very successful students, Paula Fan. Here’s a link to a whole page on Mme...

Ernö Balogh

Hungarian born Ernö Balogh (1897 – 1989) studied piano in Budapest under Béla Bartók and in Berlin under Leonid Kreutzer before coming to America in 1924 at the advice of violinist Fritz Kreisler with whom he had worked as an accompanist on a tour of...

Lotte Lehmann Students

Lehmann coached, taught, directed and “master-classed” a huge number of singers. She was always proud of her students and their accomplishments.  In every interview she managed to include some of their names. Long before Lehmann taught at the Music Academy...

Magazine Articles

On this page you can find articles from magazines such as Opera News, Time, Life etc. as well as newspapers. The May 2008 issue of Opera News includes the following review of Kater’s Lehmann biography by Rudolph Rauch. A revisionist biography of diva Lotte...