The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Lehmann, Lotte
(l´mn, Ger. l´män) (KEY) , 18881976, German-American soprano. Lehmann studied at the Berlin State Conservatory. She made her debut in Hamburg in 1910 and was a member of the Vienna State Opera (191438). After her North American debut (1930) in Chicago, she sang with the Metropolitan Opera (193445). She wrote Eternal Flight (tr. 1938), a novel; Midway in My Song (tr. 1938), her autobiography; and More than Singing (tr. 1945), on technique and repertoire.