Basic Documents
- Apple iBooks (web adaptation): Lotte Lehmann & Her Legacy Volumes 1-9 are now available on this website.
- Updated complete Lehmann biography by Beaumont Glass
- Bios and Obits
- Commercial Discography Revised January 2020
- Non-Commercial Discography
- Discography Index
- Discography with sound
- Chronology
- Lehmann’s Birth Certificate
- Lotte Lehmann & Her Legacy iBook Volume IX (PDF) is titled Documents
Lehmann Sings
- A large section of this linked page offers many examples.
- Hear how Lehmann sang Schubert’s Ständchen (Leise flehen…) from 1927–1950.
- Lehmann’s performances of Schubert’s Der Doppelgänger with article by Macaulay.
- Read what reviewers wrote about LL’s Lieder recordings and hear them, as well.
- Herman Klein reviews of Lehmann records 1924-1934 that you can also hear.
- Summary of this site’s offerings of Lehmann as the Marschallin
- 1939 Met Der Rosenkavalier (excerpts) with commentary
- 1940 Met (in Boston) Die Walküre (excerpts) with commentary
- 1938 Met Die Walküre
- Listen for the difference sound engineers can make on these radio broadcast recordings. Mostly Lieder, you’ll also find Puccini, Wagner, etc.
- Live Vienna Opera excerpts from Tannhäuser, Die Meistersinger, Andrea Chenier, Die Walküre, and Der Rosenkavalier
- Live (outdoor) 1946 Seattle with orchestra
- Test pressings sent by UCSB (Lieder, opera, etc.)
- Recently compiled Die schöne Müllerin with her singing, teaching, and art
- Introduction to art song using Lehmann
- Comparisons
Lehmann Writes
- As many of Lehmann’s poems as could be located.
- Lehmann’s essay “Growing Up”: 16 pages on her youth, plus a possible intended addition
- Lehmann on Lieder Singing
- Lehmann on her Accompanists
- Lehmann on her Students
- Lehmann on Puccini
- Lehmann on Strauss #1 and #2
- Lehmann on Critics
- Lehmann on the Metropolitan
- Lehmann’s two page Memoir
- Letters Mme Lehmann sent to me (Gary Hickling).
- Lehmann’s novelette: Of Heaven, Hell and Hollywood
- Lehmann’s earliest publication, a small book of poems called Verse in Prosa
- Lehmann’s diary (in German) from her 1937 tour of Australia called Beneath the Southern Cross
- Lehmann’s diary (in English) from her 1937 tour of Australia called Beneath the Southern Cross
- Lehmann Bibliography
- Lehmann’s Letters
- Lehmann’s Goering story with Dr. Kater’s version
- “The Singing Actress Attacks Her Part”, from the April 1937 Theatre Arts Monthly
- Thomas Pasatieri’s Sieben Lehmann-Lieder
- Read what she wrote about Bruno Walter. Or Der Rosenkavalier. The foreword and post script Lehmann wrote to her autobiography are famous and we offer, on the same page, her introduction to her book More than Singing.
- Lehmann wrote her last book, Eighteen Song Cycles, in 1972. You may read the published as well as the unpublished (and Lehmann-candid) introduction. The page called “misc” writings is interesting to scroll through. You can find Lehmann poetry, articles on Toscanini, her feelings about her own recordings and more.
Critics, fans, and students write
- Lehmann-related pages from Vincent Sheean’s First and Last Love
- Marlina Deasy Hartanto’s Master’s Thesis: “Exploring Expressive Lied Performance: Re-enacting Lotte Lehmann’s Pre-World War II Lied Performances.”
- Gary Hickling: An Appreciation of LL’s Recordings
- Quotes from many sources, Steane, etc.
- Magazine Articles
- Reviews
- Quotes from various sources on Lehmann’s private life
- Beaumont Glass on knowing and working with Lehmann
- Images (newspaper clippings, etc.) sent by UCSB
- Marcia Davenport’s “Profile” on Lehmann from the 23 February 1935 New Yorker
- Recital and Concert Programs, Reviews
- Newspaper Clippings (Europe)
- Newspaper Clippings 1968-1988
Miscellaneous
- Lehmann hosts a film with her students: “An Evening with Lotte Lehmann”
- Lehmann’s Legion of Honor
- Gary Hickling Zoom host for Wagner Society LL: 1. Singer; 2. Teacher
- Grace Bumbry Zoom guest about LL for Wagner Society
- Lehmann sings for the troops 1943
- Lehmann’s Farewell Recital photos, speech, etc.
- Lehmann at the reopening of the Vienna Opera 1955
- Recital/Concert Programs
- Daniele Palma’s paper on Lehmann’s singing of Dichterliebe
- Mixed documents of many sources
- Booklet for Lehmann’s “Great Recordings of the Century”
- 1935 TIME magazine article on Lehmann
- Music & Arts CD-ROM of the texts and translations of their “125th Birthday Tribute”
- Music & Arts CD-ROM of the Beaumont Glass short Lehmann biography for their “125th Birthday Tribute”
- “Notes on Singing” an article based on an interview with Lehmann
- Photos from Das Interessante Blatt and Die Bühne, during Lehmann’s Vienna years
- Lehmann’s Roles and Song Titles
- Lehmann/Melchior Recitals
- Lehmann in Wigmore Hall
- Lotte Lehmann League and Lotte Lehmann Foundation Newsletters
- Afterlife
- Playbills, mostly opera
Recording Data
- Lehmann Interview on Recordings
- Available Records
- Test Pressings
- MGM Test Pressings
- CD Index: to help you find the particular song or aria on CD
- Transfer Engineers’ Tasks
- Recording Dates’ Worksheets
- Odeon Records catalog pages that include Lehmann (1924-1934)
- Hand-written pages of off-the-air tapes in the Rhodes Collection
Lotte Lehmann & Her Legacy iBooks
Click here to view the PDF versions of of the iBooks Lotte Lehmann & Her Legacy, or here for the web adaptation.