An Assessment of Lehmann's Art

by Beaumont Glass

In the Autumn l988 The Opera Quarterly Beaumont Glass wrote a 20-page summary of Lehmann's life and an assessment of her art. "She had an uncanny ability to lose her own personality in that of the character to be portrayed. They were all utterly different. It was not Lotte Lehmann up there on the stage,...it really seemed to be another human being, the creature of the composer's imagination suddenly incarnate in flesh and blood. She found the perfect combination of the universal and the particular in every part, a three-dimensional credibility that preserved archetypal essence."