Lenya

[ len-yuh, leyn- ]

noun

1. Lot·te [lot, -ee, law, -t, uh], Karoline Blamauer, 1900–81, Austrian actress and singer, in the U.S. after 1935 (wife of Kurt Weill).

Lenya

/ ˈlɛnjə /

noun

1. LenyaLotte19001981FAustrianMUSIC: singerTHEATRE: actress Lotte (ˈlɒtɪ), original name Caroline Blamauer. 1900–81, Austrian singer and actress, associated esp with the songs of her husband Kurt Weill

Example Sentences

Plaza, who would have been welcomed with open arms by Broadway producers after her breakout performance in HBO’s “The White Lotus,” chose to do a revival of John Patrick Shanley’s “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea” at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on Christopher Street in the West Village, a historic Broadway venue where a landmark production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera” starring Lotte Lenya ran for years and Caryl Churchill’s “Cloud Nine” had its New York premiere.

From Los Angeles Times

“We really need to restore fire as a process on our California landscape,” said Lenya Quinn-Davidson, director of the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Fire Network and a member of the working group that developed the pilot program.

From Los Angeles Times

“It’s really just that we got lucky,” said Lenya Quinn-Davidson, a fire adviser for the University of California Cooperative Extension.

From Seattle Times

Although it seems counterintuitive, the escape actually demonstrated the need for agencies and partners to put more fire on the landscape, said Lenya Quinn-Davidson, area fire advisor for the University of California Cooperative Extension.

From Los Angeles Times

“I don’t think people realize that we’re actually at a point where, some of these fires, we cannot put them out,” said Lenya N. Quinn-Davidson, a fire adviser with the University of California Cooperative Extension and director of the Northern California Prescribed Fire Council.

From New York Times