Cosima's Diaries

Diary Entry of April 20, 1876

Overview

Richter leaves after bluntly warning that Vienna does not care whether Bayreuth succeeds and that the break with Scaria was deliberate. More bad news follows from Levi about the Munich opera reopening, which will make meeting local needs harder, and the evening ends with Don Quixote.

Content

Thursday, April 20:

Departure of Richter; he says plainly that nobody in Vienna cares at all whether Bayreuth comes to anything or not, and that the breach with Scaria was provoked deliberately.

In the afternoon R. receives news from the conductor Levi that, since the Munich opera is reopening on August 15, it will be impossible to provide some of our requirements here! ... In the evening Don Quixote.