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Lilli Lehmann

1848 - 1929

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Lilli Lehmann (born Elisabeth Maria Lehmann, later Elisabeth Maria Lehmann-Kalisch; 24 November 1848 – 17 May 1929) was a German soprano who had an active performance career spanning from 1865 into the 1920s. One of the great sopranos of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, music critics hailed her as a peer to other celebrated singers of that era such as Jenny Lind and Adelina Patti. In her early career she performed lighter soprano roles from mainly the lyric coloratura soprano repertoire; and it is in this rep that she was known while a prima donna at the Berlin Hofoper from 1869 through 1885. In 1884 she made her first foray into the dramatic soprano canon at the Royal Opera House in London when she performed the part of Isolde in Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2024). Lilli Lehmann is the 848th most popular singer (down from 753rd in 2024), the 3,553rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,276th in 2019) and the 31st most popular German Singer.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Lilli Lehmann ranks 848 out of 4,381. Before her are Zinka Milanov, Tommy Cash, Nina Badrić, Nick Kamen, Leontyne Price, and Lill Lindfors. After her are Hugues Aufray, Jason Derulo, Odetta, Claudio Villa, Severina, and Renaud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Lilli Lehmann ranks 72. Before her are Boris Stürmer, Adolf Albin, Heinrich Hübschmann, Lilla Cabot Perry, Francisco Pradilla Ortiz, and Robert Planquette. After her are Kurd Lasswitz, Princess Amalie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Pavle Jurišić Šturm, Belle Starr, Hubert Parry, and Gustav Fischer. Among people deceased in 1929, Lilli Lehmann ranks 85. Before her are Ernest Monis, Segundo de Chomón, Emilie Snethlage, Gustave Schlumberger, Wilhelm von Bode, and Cornelis Lely. After her are Gunnar Heiberg, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, Pierre Fatou, Ernest Mason Satow, Paul Leni, and Ray Lankester.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Lilli Lehmann ranks 3,555 out of 7,253. Before her are Max August Zorn (1906), Helmut Walcha (1907), Adolf Stieler (1775), Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (1685), Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917), and Adolf Martens (1850). After her are Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1748), Franz Roth (1946), Johann Most (1846), Josef Kammhuber (1896), Christian Gmelin (1792), and Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst (1607).

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Among SINGERS In Germany

Among singers born in Germany, Lilli Lehmann ranks 31. Before her are Heidi Brühl (1942), Renate Müller (1906), Tanita Tikaram (1969), Reinhard Mey (1942), Walter Andreas Schwarz (1913), and Irmgard Seefried (1919). After her are H.P. Baxxter (1964), Gertrud Elisabeth Mara (1749), Henriette Sontag (1806), Diana Damrau (1971), Lotte Lehmann (1888), and Liane Augustin (1927).

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