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Lotte Lenya

Lotte Lenya has been played on NTS shows including Ross Allen, with So What? first played on 19 June 2017.

Lotte Lenya (October 18, 1898 – November 27, 1981), singer and actress, born Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer, in Vienna, Austria. She is best known for her performance as Jenny in Kurt Weill's and Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, and some other Brecht-Weill plays. To a younger audience, she is known for her part as the villain Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia with Love.

As a child of working class Roman Catholic parents, Lenya wanted to be a dancer. She moved to study in…

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Seeräuber-Jenny = Pirate Jenny
Lotte Lenya
Columbia Masterworks1970
Seeräuber-Jenny = Pirate Jenny
Lotte LenyaColumbia Masterworks1970
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Matrosen-Tango
Lotte Lenya, Weill, Brecht
Philips1960
Matrosen-Tango
Lotte Lenya, Weill, BrechtPhilips1960
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So What?
Lotte Lenya
Bear Family Records2000
So What?
Lotte LenyaBear Family Records2000
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