In the little German town of Perleberg some 30 years ago a lusty argument went on between a round-faced, pig-tailed girl and her practical, hard-working father. The child was determined to be a singer ...

Soprano Lotte Lehmann left Eastern Europe in the late 1930s and eventually made it to Santa Barbara in 1940 after her husband died in New York. The world-renowned operatic soprano fell in love with ...

“How can it really be that I was once the little girl and that one day I will be the woman?…How can it happen, when, after all, I always remain the same?”So muses the Marschallin, the wise, witty and ...

"Luisa Fernanda," the hugely popular romantic zarzuela by Frederico Moreno Torroba, has been performed over 10,000 times on stages around the world. Now it comes to Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall. UCSB ...

The United States is known as the land of opportunity for a very good reason. Countless people, born in other countries, have come to the U.S. and became well known because of their work, talent, ...

When you order a new car with “all the bells and whistles,” recognized or not, you’re tearing a page from pipe-organ history. Mighty theater organs like the Arlington Theatre’s Wonder Morton — great ...

The Austrian authorities have announced a ban on records by lotte Lehmann, metropolitan opera soprano. (she recently took out her first citizenship papers in the united states.) miss Lehmann early in ...

Regine Crespin has an amazing voice. She recently pleased New York critics as the Marschallin in the Lotte Lehmann-directed Rosenkavalier at the Met, but New York has not yet heard anything like her ...

The organization, a devoted supporter of young singers and composers, continues its inaugural season of concerts with an afternoon of songs by Grieg, Sibelius, Stenhammar, Korngold, Fauré, and Auric.

The organization, devoted to young singers and composers who write for them, presents the first in a series of recitals at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church, a concert given by the soprano Martha Guth, ...