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This is Alberich's dream come true — Nibelheim, world dominion, activity, work, everywhere the oppressive feeling of steam and fog.
Cosima Wagner's Diaries (1978)
I am writing Parsifal only for my wife — if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.
Cosima Wagner's Diaries (1978)
Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled.
Cosima Wagner's Diaries (1978)
It should not be presumed that these people (the Jews), who are so separated from us by their religion, have any right to make our laws. But why blame the Jews? It is we who lack all feeling for our own identity, all sense of honour.
Cosima Wagner's Diaries (1978)
Music has taken a bad turn; these young people have no idea how to write a melody, they just give us shavings, which they dress up to look like a lion's mane and shake at us... It's as if they avoid melodies, for fear of having perhaps stolen them from someone else.
Cosima Wagner's Diaries (1978)
Oh, I hate the thought of all those costumes and grease paint! When I think that characters like Kundry will now have to be dressed up, those dreadful artists' balls immediately spring into my mind. Having created the invisible orchestra, I now feel like inventing the invisible theatre!
Cosima Wagner's Diaries (1978)