Dear Friend,
Many thanks for Herr v. Reichenberg: he's a decided acquisition, both for now and the future.
Who recommended you the two lady singers at Bremen? I might perhaps get one of them to come to Hanover, where I shall be stopping on Sunday and Monday — the 11th and 12th April — for sake of the tenor. Could you effect some such thing?
The accounts which Reichenberg gave me of Unger, as concerns his voice, were not favourable; if he cannot keep to a single note, I can never teach it him. I'm getting afraid of him.
I wish for Knapp in any case. Berlin concert — 24th April: — God knows!
Best greetings from your
Richard Wagner.
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel, with a Brief History of the Bayreuth Festivals, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Grant Richards, 1899), No. 61