Many people who worked with and knew Lehmann were glad to provide their memories and these were often heard on the radio for occasions such as Lotte Lehmann’s birthday etc. This page will provide you with access to the wide variety of such programs. You may read...
Kurt Ollmann, baritone, has a broad-ranging career and is heard regularly with opera companies, orchestras, chamber music groups and on many recordings, but he has always been especially devoted to the song repertoire. Ollmann has sung recitals in all the major New...
Mr. Johnson is the recipient of the Lehmann Foundation’s 2004 World of Song Award.After arriving in Britain from his native Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Graham Johnson studied at London’s Royal Academy of Music and subsequently with the late Geoffrey Parsons....
In 1993, he was engaged by the Opera de Paris-Bastille to sing in a new production of Benvenuto Cellini by Berlioz. In 2000, he performed in Heloise and Abelard by Australian composer Peter Tahourdin, toured France and Poland with Mozart’s Requiem, sung at the...
Shirley Sproule, soprano, was born in Canada and trained and sang there until first studying opera and Lieder with Lehmann at the MAW in 1953. She continued there with Lehmann, working in the winters as well as the regular summer sessions and after 1956 sang in Europe...
Katsuumi Niwa was born in 1938 and has taught for years at Nihon University. Known in three vocal areas, he sang countertenor in Minao Shibata’s vocal works, as well as traditional Japanese contemporary opera and European Baroque music. As a tenor and baritone he is...
