Lilli Lehmann was a German operatic soprano. Her mother Maria Theresia Löw (1809 - 1885) was Jewish. Her first lessons were from her mother who was a prima donna under Spohr at Cassel. After singing small parts on the stage she made her debut in 1870 in Berlin as a light soprano in Meyerbeer's "Das Feldlager in Schlesien" in 1870 and became so successful that she was appointed Imperial chamber singer in 1876. She sang in the first Bayreuth Festival, in 1876, … Wikipedia
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