Eh! Eh! Friend Heckel! Your verdict veers so easily? A little while back you were all for Unger, — to-day you put your faith in Jäger! Now I am in with Unger; to be sure, I've had a heap of trouble in overcoming his Saxon vocalism, which completely masked his voice, but I now have hopes that I shall get on better with him than with any other tenor of my acquaintance. And I shall keep him tied here; he was obviously a lost, but not an unenergetic creature. Jäger is excellent, but . . .
The question of accommodation here now enters a new phase; we shall have to do without building a new hotel.
Hearty greeting from
Your
trusty composer
R. Wagner.
What is Frl. v. Müller's exact address?
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel, with a Brief History of the Bayreuth Festivals, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Grant Richards, 1899), No. 65