Contents of this page of Lehmann articles, poems and papers include: 1. The unpublished introduction to Eighteen Song Cycles 1a. The published introduction “Lieder Interpretation” to Eighteen Song Cycles 2. Lotte Lehmann’s first poem in English...
Here are excerpts from the Foreword to Lotte Lehmann’s autobiography, Midway in My Song, or On Wings of Song, published in 1938. Her post script to the foreword is even more famous. Below that, you’ll find the Foreword to her 1945 book on song...
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....
