[...] The ceremony went off very well yesterday, and my chorus won a decisive victory over Mendelssohn's, which was ineffective and unintelligible. Lindenau, too, said the same to me to-day outright, and assured me the whole Court was of a like opinion. [...]
I must now make all speed with the Apostles! This evening it is to be Norma with Mme. Werthmüller—stupid rubbish! [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 1, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 90