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Marie Lehmann was born in [[Hamburg]], the daughter of the soprano [[Maria Theresia Löw]] and the [[heldentenor]] Karl August Lehmann, and the sister of [[Lilli Lehmann]]. Her mother trained the girls, working in Prague.<ref name="Kutsch" />
Lehmann made her stage debut at the [[Leipzig Opera]] in 1867 as Ännchen in Weber's ''[[Der Freischütz]]'',<ref name="Kutsch" /> where she was engaged until 1869. She took a break of two years, continuing her career at the [[Hamburg Opera]] in 1871, at the [[Cologne Opera]] in 1873, at the [[Breslau Opera]] in 1878, at the German Theatre in [[Prague]] in 1879,<ref name="Kutsch" /> and finally at the [[Vienna State Opera|Vienna Court Opera]] from 1891
In [[Bayreuth]], Lehmann performed the soprano solo in Beethoven's [[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|Ninth Symphony]] for the groundbreaking of the [[Bayreuth Festspielhaus]] in 1872.<ref name="Forbes" /> She created two roles, Wellgunde the [[Rhinemaiden]] and Waltraute the [[Valkyrie]], in the first complete performance of Wagner's ''[[Der Ring des Nibelungen]]''<ref name="Forbes" /> at the inaugural [[Bayreuth Festival]] from 13 to 17 August 1876. The other two Rhinemaidens were her sister [[Lilli Lehmann]], and [[Minna Lammert]].<ref name="Kutsch" /><ref name="Lehmann" /> They performed "swimming" in an apparatus imagined by Wagner. After the opening scene was first tried, stage assistant Richard Fricke wrote in his diary that Wagner "thanked them with tears of joy".<ref name="Deaville" /> Lehmann sang again in Bayreuth in 1896, as the Second Norne in ''[[Götterdämmerung]]''.<ref name="Forbes" />
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