Lehmann’s performance in this role was taken as a standard for years after she left the stage. When Schwarzkopf returned to sing the Marschallin at Covent Garden in 1959 Philip Hope-Wallace wrote in The Guardien: “Some of her phrasing was angelic, but this is much more the Dresden figurine, the superb soubrette than the conception of the Marschalilin which lingers from the days of Lotte Lehmann…” Of that same performance Peter Heyworth in The Observer wrote: “Of all present-day singers Elisabeth Schwarzkopf would seem by far the best equipped to don the illustrious mantle of Lotte Lehmann in the role of the Marschallin…”
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Steichen’s unused photoKidding around with Her favorite Ochs Richard MayrCast backstage with director Lothar WallersteinReleasing Octavian Act IIIEnd of Act I MonologueMarschallin taking charge of OchsAct I LeveeMarschallin Act III entranceNot yet the fully “in charge” Marschallin LL was to becomeEarly Marschallin Act IOutside in SalzburgAs Octavian (LL first to sing all three female leads)Mature LL Act IIIEarliest Photo of LL as the MarschallinSteichen’s Famous Photo of Lehmann1936 Philadelphia ProgramLL as Sophie (the first to sing all three female leads)LL candid as MarschallinAs the regal MarschallinOlszewska, Schumann, LL record Rosenkavalier (1933)MarschallinMarschallinAct ILive on stage as the MarschallinVera Schwarz with LLAngerer, Mayr, director Wallerstein, LLLL with AngererLL admiring Schattenstein’s portrait of her Risë Stevens as Octavian and LLWith Clemens Krauss (probably Sazlburg)“Live”for San Francisco Opera companyfor San Francisco Opera companyRisë Stevens as Octavianfor San Francisco Opera companyfor San Francisco Opera companyIn costume with conductorA live stage shot of Lehmann as the Marschallin Act IIIRisë Stevens’ debut in the rolea photo of LL as Octavian that’s been enhancedFirst live photo of the “levee” scene of Act I of Der RosenkavalierSecond live photo of the “levee” scene of Act I of Der Rosenkavalier (1936)Live 1936Angerer, Mayr, Wallerstein, LLLL and Mayr 1929Krauss and LL 1929
