Lotte Lehmann

Lotte Lehmann (Sentanka) Charlotte Lehmann Die große Opernsängerin Sie schrieb und filmte Ihr Ruhm bleibt unvergessen Und bot den Nazis die Stirn Charlotte Lehmann The great opera singer She wrote and filmed Her fame will always be remembered And she defied the Nazis Charlotte Lehmann La gran vocalista de ópera Ella escribió y filmó Su fama siempre será recordado Y desafió a los nazis Note: Charlotte Lehman, known as Lotte Lehman, born in 1888 in Perleburg, Germany, and one of my relatives, was a famous opera singer in Europe and the USA. She emigrated from Vienna to the USA in 1937. She sang at the Metropolitan Opera in New York from 1934 to 1945. In 1951 she retired from public live and gave singing instructions. One of her scholars was the well-known opera singer Grace Bumbry. Lotte Lehmann was also a writer and poetess and a filmmaker. She died in 1976 in Santa Barbara, California and was buried at the famous Vienna Central Cemetary in 1977.