Christian Lehman

  • Artist (Painter)
Scene-painter and actor, was a member of the celebrated Lehman ballet troupe which visited Australia in 1867. assisted Messrs Pitt and Fry on the Melbourne scenery for the pantomime Harlequin Rumplestiltskin.
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scene-painter and actor, was a member of the celebrated Lehman ballet troupe which visited Australia in 1867, opening at Sydney’s Prince of Wales Opera House on 12 October and at Melbourne’s Royal Haymarket on 18 November. Christian Lehman assisted Messrs Pitt and Fry on the Melbourne scenery for the pantomime Harlequin Rumplestiltskin . The transformation scene, 'the nymphs of the Silver Grotto, a scene of surpassing taste and beauty’, was specifically attributed to him. He and Mr Martin played the pantaloons in the Harlequinade, his younger brother, Auguste Lehman, and W.B. Gill playing the clowns in the same sequence.

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Date written:
1992
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2011

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References [<ExternalResource: Pask, E. (1979), 'Enter the Colonies Dancing', Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Callaway, Anita.>]