Missing Recordings

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....

Obit by Martin Bernheimer

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...

Nachruf von Seebohm

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...

Lehmann Biography

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...

Lehmann Biography

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...

Radio Script in German

LL with pet 1930 “Aus Lotte Lehmanns Archiv” — Folge 1 Manuskript und Produktion: Georg Hirsch Am Mikrofon Georg Hirsch. Heute stoebern wir im Archiv einer deutschen Saengerin, deren Spuren sich durch ganz Amerika ziehen. Lotte Lehmann, geboren 1888...