[...] All in good time! I absolutely must wait till Nachbaur comes from Darmstadt for his Munich engagement before I can allow my Mastersingers to be produced. [...]
[...] I have promised the King to finish Siegfried by the end of this year. The Twilight of the Gods, the last piece of the Nibelung cycle, must then shortly follow. After that something new—as a contrast to The Mastersingers perhaps—namely a Parzival—in the Lohengrin genre. Good luck to all our plans. [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 2, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 631