Lehmann in Hope Ranch Park Magazine

An article on Lotte Lehmann by Vivian Obern appeared in two installments in the Hope Ranch Park Magazine, Winter and Summer 1991 issues. Primarily a pleasant condensation of Beaumont Glass' 1988 biography, Lotte Lehmann: A Life in Opera & Song, it gives an overall coverage of Lehmann's history, with special atteneion to the home "Orplid" in the Hope Ranch area of Santa Barbara. Lehmann and Frances Holden acquired the English cottage on six acres shortly after their first home in the mountains above Santa Barbara burned in a 1940 canyon fire. Ms. Obern, a local historical writer and Hope Ranch resident, interviewed Ms. Holden for the article and was granted permission to use a number of photos from her collection.