Lilli Lehmann is one of those singers who goes back so far historically that by rights we shouldn't be able to hear her. Born in the impossibly long ago year of 1848, Lehmann made her operatic debut in Prague the year the American Civil War came to an end, began to sing at Bayreuth in 1876, and became a favorite of Richard Wagner and retired after singing her final operatic role at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1899. Her teaching salon, active until the conclusion of her long life, was a major magnet for young ...
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Lilli Lehmann is one of those singers who goes back so far historically that by rights we shouldn't be able to hear her. Born in the impossibly long ago year of 1848, Lehmann made her operatic debut in Prague the year the American Civil War came to an end, began to sing at Bayreuth in 1876, and became a favorite of Richard Wagner and retired after singing her final operatic role at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1899. Her teaching salon, active until the conclusion of her long life, was a major magnet for young singers, among them Olive Fremstad and Geraldine Farrar. In the years 1906-1907, Lehmann, then pushing 60, faced the recording horn on seven known occasions, producing 42 recordings of which a little less than half are included on Nimbus' Lilli Lehmann: Prima Voce. First of all, it is amazing how good Lehmann still sounds given her age and the primitive technology; while it is clear that she's no "spring chicken," there is nothing of the trial and heartbreak that attends the records made...
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