Wagner's Letters

Richard Wagner to Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld

May 25, 1862 · Biebrich

Subject

Wagner asks Schnorr, at Karlsruhe, for a discreet ticket to the next day's Lohengrin, the performance at which he first heard his future Tristan.

Please get me one ticket for Lohengrin tomorrow incognito first or second row left with the greatest discretion.

Source: Letters of Richard Wagner: The Burrell Collection, ed. John N. Burk (Macmillan, 1950), No. 252