TIME Goes to the Opera

1935: Lotte Lehman
"The singer who has thus far contributed most to the 1934-35 season is a simple, hearty German whose name is Lotte Lehmann.... Lotte Lehmann has one great role which she has made peculiarly her own. In Der Rosenkavalier her Marschallin has all the wisdom and pathos of Strauss's music. She loses in love but she never loses dignity. The season's plume is hers for one scene alone, where she sits before her mirror and realizes sadly and philosophically that she is growing old."
From: Prima Donna from Perleberg, Feb. 18, 1935

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