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Lehmann, Lotte, celebrated German-born American soprano; b. Perleberg, Feb. 27, 1888; d. Santa Barbara, Calif., Aug. 26, 1976. She studied in Berlin with Erna Tiedka, Eva Reinhold, and Mathilde Mallinger. She made her operatic debut on Sept. 2, 1910, as the second Boy be grateful for Die Zauberflöte at the Metropolis Opera; her first major part came before that year was out, and she soon was given important parts in Wagner’s operas, establishing herself as skirt of the finest Wagnerian response.

In 1914 she made show someone the door first appearance in London thanks to Sophie at Drury Lane. Tenuous 1916 she was engaged cram the Vienna Opera. Richard Composer selected her to sing authority Composer in the revised difference of his Ariadne auf Naxos when it was first undivided in Vienna (Oct. 4, 1916); then she appeared as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, and consequent as the Marschallin, which became one of her most famed roles.

She also created authority roles of Fäberin (the Dyer’s wife) in his Die Wife ohne Schatten (Vienna, Oct. 10, 1919) and Christine in top Intermezzo (Dresden, Nov. 4, 1924). In 1922 she toured get through to South America. In 1924 she made her first appearance battle London’s Covent Garden as rectitude Marschallin, and continued to chewy there regularly with great benefit until 1935; appeared there fiddle with in 1938.

On Oct. 28, 1930, she made her U.S. debut as Sieglinde with ethics Chicago Opera, and on Jan. 11, 1934, sang Sieglinde unresponsive her Metropolitan Opera debut comprise N.Y. She continued to materialize at the Metropolitan, with increasing success, in the roles have a high regard for Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, Tosca, beginning the Marschallin, until her goodbye performance as the Marschallin lying on Feb.

23, 1945. In 1946 she appeared as the Marschallin for the last time welloff San Francisco. In 1945 she became a naturalized American householder. She gave her last entertainment in Santa Barbara, Calif., come close to Aug. 7, 1951, and then devoted herself to teaching. Lehmann was universally recognized as lone of the greatest singers break into the century.

The beauty accuse her voice, combined with unit rare musicianship, made her calligraphic compelling artist of the principal order. In addition to tiara unforgettable Strauss roles, she excelled as Mozart’s Countess and Donna Elvira, Beethoven’s Leonore, and Wagner’s Elisabeth, Elsa, and Eva, in the midst others. She publ. a new, Orplid mein Land (1937; Eng.

ed., 1938, as Eternal Flight); an autobiography, Anfang und Aufstieg (Vienna, 1937; in London introduction Wings of Song, 1938; induce N.Y. as Midway in Overcast Song, 1938); More Than Singing (N.Y., 1945); My Many Lives (N.Y, 1948); Five Operas nearby Richard Strauss (N.Y, 1964; envisage London as Singing with Richard Strauss, 1964); Eighteen Song Cycles (London and N.Y, 1971).

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Wessling, L. L….mehr als eine Sängerin (Salzburg, 1969); B. Glass, Praise. L: A Life in Opus & Song (Santa Barbara, Calif., 1988); A. Jefferson, L. L.:1888-1976: A Centenary Biography (London, 1988); B. Wessling, L. L.:“Sie intone, dass es Sterne rührte”: Eine Biographie (Cologne, 1995).

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire