Category: Cosima Wagner Diaries

R. reads me the printed letter of an unnamed leading figure in the Catholic party to a French bishop, which sounds really ominous for Germany. In this connection R. quotes Cromwell’s words to his soldiers at Worcester: “Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry.”  We stay at…

R. again dreamed his traditional old dream about his wife, whom he did not know how to fit into his new life, until the problem was solved by his waking up thinking, “But she is dead.” — R. works morning and afternoon; I do a lot of work with Lusch…

I feel quite indisposed and can hold myself erect only with an effort. Glorious weather, an incomparably fine summer, the heat not oppressive. R. works on his third act, but has many venations, among other things the loss of the arrangement of the and act of Götterdämmerung, which would now…

Wrote some business letters, in the afternoon to a coffee party in Frau v. Braun’s house, for me a somewhat strange experience. In the evening the singer Alexis. — When all have gone, R. looks at the picture of me in his folder, which was done at the time when…

Much worry about my wardrobe—R. thinks I do not have enough to wear! At lunch Herr Betz, who admits to me that he is happy to have come here and thus got to know R. really well personally—he has also seen how happy he is!  Rehearsal with Herr Unger, Loge…

Further study between R. and his singer. Family lunch with Herr Betz as guest. In the evening, news of the assassination attempt on Bismarck. Great consternation. One can almost see it as a sign of good fortune—how a star shines over the German Empire. I remark to R. that the…