Cosima's Diaries

Diary Entry of May 4, 1877

Overview

A productive rehearsal day brings satisfaction, followed by more work at home with the singers. The evening shifts into cultured company, with dinner among writers, artists, and musicians in a lively social setting.

Content

Friday, May 4:

Rehearsal (there was none yesterday; I wrote letters, among others to the children, in the morning), to R.’s great satisfaction, as already reported.

In the afternoon rehearsal at home with the singers. In Kensington.

Dinner in the evening at Herr Schlesinger’s with the poet Browning, the painter R. Lehmann, Wilhelmj, Richter, etc.