Lotte Lehmann: Photos with Friends & Colleagues

With Christa Ludwig

I treat the word “friend” rather broadly. On this page you’ll see some of the greatest musicians of Lehmann’s time, as well as Lehmann with her dogs and other animals. Some of these friends are really colleagues, but I know that Lehmann counted the conductor/pianist Bruno Walter as a friend, as well as bass-baritone Richard Mayr, soprano Elisabeth Schumann, companion Frances Holden, and of course her husband, Otto. There’s an obvious non-friend below and that’s conductor Clemens Krauss (who wanted Usurleac, his mistress and later wife, to sing roles that Lehmann was singing).

Martha Graham, LL, Stokowski, 1955
Olszewska, Schumann, LL
LL with husband Otto
LL and her favorite dog
Bruno Walter, LL, Felix Salten
LL with Giannini
LL teaching at MAW
Bumbry with LL
With heldentenor
On board with Chaliapin (r) and Lauri-Volpi, 23 November 1932
With movie stars
Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, LL
With Toscanini
Rehearsing with Maestro Toscanini
With Toscanini
LL always had pet dogs
With students
With Students
W
With Abravanel and Melchior
With Koldofsky
With Otto
With Governor Rohrl
W
With Friends in Salzburg
With Clemens Krauss (no friend!)
With Eleanor Steber and Shirley Sproule
Eleanor Roosevelt and LL
Beata Popper and LL, 1968
Wedding Day: Otto, mother & LL
Mann, LL, Mann’s children, Bruno Walter
Risë Stevens, LL, Bruno Walter
Receiving an award at MAW in front of the Fidelio portrait
With R. Mayr (one of her best friends)
LL, Bruno Walter, Dusolina Giannini (Bruno’s mistress), in Salzburg
With Bruno Walter in Salzburg
With Pinza
On Tour with Lauritz Melchior
LL with Melchior
LL, Melchior’s wife, LM
On a ship
Nelson Eddy and LL
LL with Lisa Della Cassa
Waikiki on the way to first Australian tour. Ulanowsky, LL and Otto
With a Kookaburra in Australia
With Koalas on Australia Tour
In Australia, 1938
In Front of her home in Vienna with Hertha Schuch, leaving Vienna in 1937 for the last time before the Anschluss and war, 1937
LL with Otto
With Hilde Güden
Aboard Bremen with Otto
Aboard ship with Walter and Clemenceau
On board with Chaliapin
Another with Chaliapin and other singers
Painting Risë Stevens’ Portrait
With Frances and pet dog
Always fascinated with animals
With Grace Bumbry
With Frances and dogs
On horseback with Frances (L) at Orplid, early 1940s
LL’s family
With E. Schumann (one of her best friends)
Always happiest with pets
Singing on base; Dick Pleasant, LL, Frances, Gen. Fales ,1944
With Chauffeur and dog, Vienna
With Bumbry
With brother Fritz, 1930s
Portrait with Brother Fritz, Otto, and Fritz’s first wife
With former colleagues Alfred Piccaver and Hans Duhan at reopening of Vienna Opera, 1955
LL with former contralto Ruth Michaelis
Four famous singers on board
with Michaelis
A different photo from the one at the top: LL with Christa Ludwig