LOTTE LEHMANN
CONCERTS IN NEW ZEALAND AN EXILE FROM GERMANY Madame Lotte Lehmann, the great coloratura soprano, who is giving concerts in New Zealand, which commenced at Wellington last night, is a German by birth, but she announced recently that she would become an American citizen and would never sing in Germany again. In 1934, General Goering told her that if she wished to retain the title of “Kammersinger” she moist reside in Berlin. Madame Lehmann’s husband was an Austrian and her home was in Vienna, a Vienna that in that year still had little thought or worry about the “ausehluss” not far away. Sc Madame Lehmann refused to he dictated to and restricted in her art, and joined Einstein, Tauber, and the many other celebrities who will not and cannot return to their Fatherland. Madam Lehmann is recognised as cne of the greatest singers of lieder in the world.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20821, 3 June 1939, Page 17 (Supplement)
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150LOTTE LEHMANN Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20821, 3 June 1939, Page 17 (Supplement)
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