You may want to read magazine articles that reference LL’s role in Der Rosenkavalier. Or you can read about the famous recorded performances of the opera with Lehmann as the Marschallin. Lotte Lehmann on Der Rosenkavalier: Perspectives from Her Spoken...
Here is LL’s advice on Lieder interpretation from her final book, Eighteen Song Cycles: Studies in their Interpretation, published in 1972. The unused introduction can be found below. Interpretation means: individual understanding and reproduction. How then is...
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...
