Wagner's Letters

Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck

August 1, 1856 · Zurich

Letter

All in order. Will you be coming over for the last act of the Walkiire ? I — hope so. — [May 8, 1857, evidently referring to a matter of some two months previously, Wagner tells Liszt of a private rendering of " the big last scene from ' Die Walküre ' " with Frau Pollert as Brunnhilde, himself as Wotan, and Th. Kirckner as accompanist : " We did it three times in my rooms',' i.e. the Zeltweg fiat, from which he moved out the middle of April; see p. lviii sup. — Tr.]

Richard Wagner

Source: Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, translated by Ellis, No. 26

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