Lady-friend,
The Tristan will be wonderful.
Will you come??
Your R. W.
1st performance 15th May.
Source: Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905), No. 152
Wagner's Letters
Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck
Undated · Munich
Overview
A terse invitation from Munich: "The Tristan will be wonderful. Will you come?" with the first performance announced for 15 May 1865. No one from Zurich attended.