Wagner's Letters

Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck

Undated · Lucerne

Letter

Child ! This Tristan is becoming something terrible. This last act ! ! ! I fear the opera will be forbidden — unless the whole is turned into a parody by bad production — : nothing but indifferent performances can save me ! Completely good ones are bound to send folk crazy, — I can see nothing else for it. To this length has it had to come with me ! Heigho ! — I was just in full blast ! Adieu ! R. W.

Richard Wagner

Source: Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, translated by Ellis, No. 66

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