Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Lotte Lehmann

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German singer Lotte Lehmann.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Charlotte "Lotte" Lehmann was a German soprano who was especially associated with German repertory. She gave memorable performances in the operas of Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Ludwig van Beethoven, Puccini, Mozart, and Massenet. The Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier, Sieglinde in Die Walküre and the title-role in Fidelio are considered her greatest roles. During her long career, Lehmann also made more than five hundred recordings.

German - Singer | February 27, 1888 - August 26, 1976

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[To the audience at her farewell concert:] You have always given me more than I gave to you ... You were the wings on which I soared.

Lotte Lehmann

Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.

Lotte Lehmann

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

Lotte Lehmann

For what mission can be greater than that of giving to the world hours of exaltation in which it may forget the misery of the present, the cares of everyday life and lose itself in the eternally pure world of harmony. . .

Lotte Lehmann

I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.

Lotte Lehmann

But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.

Lotte Lehmann