Lotte Lehmann

Lotte Lehmann was a German soprano, later a naturalized American citizen, who studied in Berlin under Mathilde Mallinger and began her career at the Hamburg Opera in 1910. She moved to the Vienna Court Opera in 1916, scoring an immediate success as the Composer in the newly revised Ariadne auf Naxos, and went on to create Strauss's first Dyer's Wife in Die Frau ohne Schatten (1919) and Christine in Intermezzo (1924). Political events drove her from Vienna in 1938, by which time she had also established herself in Britain and the United States, and she became increasingly identified with Strauss's Marschallin. She gave lieder recitals until 1951 and wrote several volumes on singing and interpretation.