Lotte Lehmann

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Charlotte "Lotte" Pauline Sophie Lehmann (February 27, 1888 – August 26, 1976) was a German-American dramatic soprano noted for her successful performances with international opera houses, on the recital stage and in teaching. She gave memorable appearances in the operas of Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Ludwig van Beethoven, Puccini, Mozart, and Massenet. The Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier, Sieglinde in Die Walküre and the title-role in Fidelio are considered her greatest roles. During her long career, Lehmann also made almost five hundred recordings in both opera and art song.

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Life and career Lehmann was born in Perleberg, a middle-sized town about halfway between Hamburg and Berlin, in the Province of Brandenburg, Germany. She studied, unsuccessfully, at two music schools in Berlin, (where her family had moved), before finding Mathilde Mallinger (Wagner’s first Eva in Die Meistersinger) who within a year and a half developed Lehmann’s voice to the level at which she could audition for and achieve a beginner’s contract with the Hamburg Opera in 1910. At that time she sang roles of pages and other minor roles. By her third year in Hamburg Lehmann was singing important roles such as Agathe in Der Freischütz and Micaëla in Carmen. Her big break came when the absence of the soprano scheduled to sing Elsa in Lohengrin allowed Lehmann her first acknowledged success. She was coached in the role by the young assistant conductor at the Hamburg Opera, Otto Klemperer. Thereafter she further sang larger roles such as Irene in Rienzi, Antonia in Les contes d’Hoffmann, Dorabella in Così fan tutte and Gutrune in Götterdämmerung. In 1913, Hans Gregor, the director of the Vienna Court Opera, came to Hamburg to hear a tenor, but noticed Lehmann as Micäela and offered her…Citește mai mult

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Personal life In 1926 Lehmann married Otto Krause, a former officer in the Austrian army. They had no children. Krause, who died of tuberculosis in 1939, had four children from a previous marriage. Lehmann never remarried. After Krause's death until her own death in 1976 Lehmann shared a home with Frances Holden (1899–1996), a psychologist who specialised in the study of genius, particularly that of classical musicians. The two women named their Santa Barbara house "Orplid" after the dream island described in Hugo Wolf's art song "Gesang Weylas". She held a long correspondence with numismatist Dorothy B. Waage.

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Legacy Lehmann helped establish the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, where there is a hall named for her. The Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara was also named in her honor. She had given many master classes there. The Lotte Lehmann Collection at the UCSB Library's Special Collections contains Lehmann's recordings, papers, photos, etc. A collection of manuscripts, photos and recordings called the Gary Hickling Collection on Lotte Lehmann is housed at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound at Stanford University. The bulk of Lehmann's private recordings is held at the Miller Nichols Library Marr Sound Archives at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Lehmann's friend Hertha Schuch willed her large collection (now in 18 boxes) of Lehmann recordings, correspondence, photos, etc. to the Austrian Theatre Museum in Vienna (Österreichisches Theatermuseum, Wien). The Lotte Lehmann Foundation was established in 1995 to preserve and perpetuate Lotte Lehmann's legacy and at the same time to bring art song into the lives of as many people as possible. It ceased activity in 2011. In 2011, the Lotte Lehmann League developed a website in her honor. In her native city, Perleberg, the Lotte…Citește mai mult

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Honors Lehmann received the title of Kammersängerin (the first singer to receive that designation since the collapse of the monarchy), 1926. Lehmann was made Ehrenmitglied der Wiener Staatsoper [Honorary Member of the Vienna State Opera], 1928. The King of Sweden conferred upon her the golden medal Literis et Artibus after a performance of Fidelio in February 1929. France awarded her the Légion d’honneur (“Offizier der Ehrenlegion”) 1931. Lehmann earned the Ehrenring der Stadt Wien [the Honor or Dedication Ring of the City of Vienna], 1962. From Germany, Lehmann received the “Großes Deutsches Verdienstkreuz” [the Great German Service Cross], 8 February 1964. Salzburg presented Lehmann with the Große Silbermedaille der Stadt Salzburg, [the Great Silver Medal of the City of Salzburg], 1969.

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Works Eighteen song cycles: studies in their interpretation (London: Cassell, 1971) Eternal Flight, translated by Elsa Krauch (NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1937) Five operas and Richard Strauss. (New York, Macmillan Co. [1964]) Midway in my Song: The Autobiography of Lotte Lehmann (NY: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938) More Than Singing: The Interpretation of Songs (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1945) My Many Lives (NY: Boosey & Hawkes, 1948)

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Recordings Great Recordings of the Century: EMI: CDH 7610422: Lotte Lehmann: Operatic Arias Great Opera Recordings: NAXOS: 8.110250-51: Die Walküre: Acts I & II Immortal Performances: NAXOS: 8.110034-36: Der Rosenkavalier (live 1939) Great Opera Recordings: NAXOS: 8.110191-92: Der Rosenkavalier (1933) Great Singers: NAXOS: 8.11244: Lotte Lehmann: Lieder Recordings, Vol. 3 Masterworks Portrait: Sony Music: MPK 47682: Lotte Lehmann: Songs from Vienna Masterworks Portrait: CBS: MPK 44840: Lotte Lehmann/Bruno Walter: Schumann: Frauenliebe und -Leben, Dichterliebe

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Sources Nigel Douglas, Legendary Voices (London: Deutsch, 1992) Beaumont Glass, Lotte Lehmann: A Life in Opera and Song (Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1988) Alan Jefferson, Lotte Lehmann, 1888–1976: A Centenary Biography (London : J. MacRae Books, 1988); German version: Lotte Lehmann: Eine Biographie (1991) Michael H. Kater, Never Sang for Hitler: The Life and Times of Lotte Lehmann (NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008) Kathy H. Brown, "Lotte Lehmann in America: Her Legacy as Artist Teacher" (Missoula, Montana: The College Music Society, 2012)

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LotteLehmannLeague.org Lotte Lehmann papers at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library Gary Hickling Collection on Lotte Lehmann, Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound Excerpt from Lotte Lehmann master class (1961) on YouTube