How to Sing is the famous vocal treatise of Lilli Lehmann, one of the greatest sopranos of the late nineteenth century, who set down in detail the method behind her own celebrated technique. Originally published in German as Meine Gesangskunst, it analyses breathing, resonance, registers, and the placement of tone.
Lehmann writes with the authority of an artist whose career spanned the most demanding roles in Wagner, Mozart, and Italian opera. Her descriptions of the physical sensations of singing are unusually precise and have been studied closely by singers ever since. Detailed and rigorous, the book stands among the most respected of all manuals on the art of the voice.