Child! This Tristan is becoming something terrible.
This last act!!!
I fear the opera will be forbidden — unless the whole is turned into a parody by bad production —: nothing but indifferent performances can save me! Completely good ones are bound to send folk crazy, — I can see nothing else for it. To this length has it had to come with me! Heigho! —
I was just in full blast!
Adieu!
R. W.
Source: Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905), No. 70