[...] I do not propose ever again to produce The Ring of the Nibelungs in Bayreuth on my own responsibility and under my own business management. I have no longer the inclination or the strength to do so.—
Under these circumstances I am considering afresh an offer made me at the close of the Dramatic Festival by Dr. Forster, director of the Leipzig Theatre. He wishes to procure for my native city the honour of a first perfect production of my Dramatic Festival. His earnestness, his zeal and his appreciation incline me to give him preference over the authorities at our Court Theatre, and I might even go so far as to put under his management a revival of the Dramatic Festival in Bayreuth itself. In the course of a year he wishes to produce all four pieces in Leipzig. [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 2, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 698