Lehmann, Lotte, << LAY muhn, LAW tuh >> (1888-1976), a German soprano, won fame as a concert and opera singer. A sensitive, warm-hearted artist, she was known as an outstanding interpreter of the music of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. One of her most celebrated roles was the Marschallin in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. She is also remembered for her singing of the German art songs called lieder. Lehmann was born on Feb. 27, 1888, in Perleberg. She settled in Santa Barbara, California, in 1938. She became a United States citizen in 1945. She died on Aug. 26, 1976.
