Lehmann in Recent Opera News

When Lehmann began her major career in the US she was opposed to having a public relations person, but relented when she discovered that it was necessary in such a large country. Her representative was Constance Hope, whom LL called, "the cleverest girl in America." Both Lehmann and Hope would be pleased at the recent LL references in Opera News.

November 1992: uses an LL photo as Sieglinde in a "Survey of Vintage Reissues" by C. J. Luten, who writes of a modern Ring recording's best portion being "its Act I of Die Walküre...which stands without embarrassmenr beside the incandescent 1935 set made in Vienna with Lotte Lehmann, (et al) under Bruno Walter's baton (EMI 6120); virtually all of Act II, with the above... is newly reissued on EMI 64255." In the same issue LL is mentioned in a review of the Met CD of Rosenkavalier excerpts, again by Luten: "There are two selections...from the classic 1933 potted, (sic) mediocre-sounding (sic!) Rosenkavalier with the inimitable Lotte Lehmann [et al]."

13 February 1993: recommends listening to the abridged Rosenkavalier with LL but mentions only the Pearl CD, even though the sonics are grearly improved on the EMI Reference CD. On another page she is quoted in an article about Richard Mayr as Baron Ochs: "He succeeded in portraying this basically repulsive character with so much charm that one could never really be angry with him."

27 February 1993: Michael Scott speaks of Karin Branzell as "a stalwart in the golden age of Wagner, the interwar years, ranking with singers of the caliber of Frida Leider, Lotte Lehmann, [et al]."

13 March 1993: mentions LL as the young Composer in the revised Ariadne auf Naxos premiere led by Schalk in 1916. She is also mentioned in reference ro the Tauber operetta CD cited above.