Lotte Lenya (born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer; 18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian-American singer, diseuse, and actress, long based in the United States. In the German-speaking and classical music world, she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her first husband, Kurt Weill. In English-language cinema, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as a jaded aristocrat in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961). She also played the murderous and sadistic Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia with Love (1963).
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Kurt Weill
German composer
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Teresa Stratas
Canadian-American singer
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Marc Blitzstein
American composer, lyricist, and librettist
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Bertolt Brecht
German poet, playwright, theatre director (1898-1956)
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John Mauceri
American conductor, producer and arranger
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Jo Sullivan Loesser
American actress and singer (1927-2019)
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Elisabeth Hauptmann
German writer
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Dagmar Krause
German singer
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Martha Schlamme
Austrian singer
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Helen Schneider
American singer
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Diane McNaron
American singer
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Wolfgang Sawallisch
German conductor and pianist
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Will Holt
American singer, songwriter, librettist and lyricist
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Inga Nielsen
Danish opera soprano
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Nicoletta
French singer