Saturday 5th (June 5th, 1875)

Cosima Wagner Diaries

R. told me of the Fata Morgana in Görres — if true, such a phenomenon, the reproduction of an event in the skies, is indeed most curious! R. says that such a Fata Morgana in the mind of a man is the A major symphony from the “Dionysia”. — 

Much rain. At midday and in the evening, Miss Weckerlin was with us; is she to be Sieglinde? … Mr Unger prefers to remain at the inn rather than come to us; this morning R. was satisfied with his voice.


Revised English translation by Jo Cousins.


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