There’s always confusion on the names of the opera houses in Berlin. These notes by Dr. Kater may help. Bruno Walter conducted at the Charlottenburg Oper (Städtische Oper or City Opera). After the war it was called the Städtische Oper Berlin, until 1961 when it...
This is a list of some of the US and UK radio broadcasts that included Lehmann and for which we have no recordings (or only alleged transfers). There were a lot of radio enthusiasts in the 1930’s and 1940’s who recorded their favorite singers on acetates....
Lotte Lehmann – Taking Leave with a Smile By Martin Bernheimer Los Angeles Times: 5 September 1976. “Long after I had given up most of my other roles in obedience to the inexorable command of time,” Lotte Lehmann wrote in 1964, “I was still being recalled to the stage...
Wien nimmt Abschied von Lotte Lehmann: Morgen wird die legendäre Marschallin auf dem Zentralfriedhof begraben; von Andrea Seebohm 24. February 1977 Morgen, Freitag, wird Lotte Lehmann in einem Ehrengrab der Stadt Wien auf dem Zentralfriedhof begraben. Es war ein...
Excerpts from Music Academy of the West by Sharon Crawford Legendary German operatic soprano and lieder singer Lotte Lehmann attended the [luncheon meeting at the Montecito Country Club on 22 September 1946]…Many of the luncheon guests were in Santa Barbara to...
By Beaumont Glass Lotte Lehmann was one of the most beloved singers of her era. She was a favorite of Richard Strauss, Giacomo Puccini, Hans Pfitzner, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Bruno Walter, Arturo Toscanini, Otto Klemperer, and Thomas Mann. Many who heard her consider...
