Thursday, November 25:
R. makes a speech to his singers, whom the newspapers have aroused to rebellion. Peace is restored, and the second performance takes place in the evening; my vexation over the foolish situation in which we have been obliged to place ourselves is so great that the first two acts leave me unaffected, but in the third I am again brought to a mood of utter devoutness and feel released from the pressures of life’s ballast!