Cosima's Diaries

Diary Entry of February 8, 1877

Overview

The weather turns bleak and unmoving, reinforcing the sense that plans are slipping away. By evening it becomes increasingly clear that the group will have to go to England, since too many singers cannot take part and performances are no longer feasible this year.

Content

Thursday, February 8:

Weather of the most inhospitable kind still: the sky gray, the air damp, the ground muddy.

In the evening, with our friend Feustel, it is more or less decided that we must go to England; many of the singers cannot come, and it has become quite evident that no performances will be possible this year.