Cosima Wagner (1837 – 1930)
Cosima Wagner.
Cosima Wagner at Bayreuth
1886
Tristan und Isolde (stage director)
1888
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (stage director)
1889
Tristan und Isolde (stage director)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (stage director)
1891
Tannhäuser (stage director)
Tristan und Isolde (stage director)
1892
Tannhäuser (stage director)
Tristan und Isolde (stage director)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (stage director)
1894
Tannhäuser (stage director)
Lohengrin (stage director)
1896
Das Rheingold (stage director)
Die Walküre (stage director)
Siegfried (stage director)
Götterdämmerung (stage director)
1897
Das Rheingold (stage director)
Die Walküre (stage director)
Siegfried (stage director)
Götterdämmerung (stage director)
1899
Das Rheingold (stage director)
Die Walküre (stage director)
Siegfried (stage director)
Götterdämmerung (stage director)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (stage director)
1901
Der fliegende Holländer (stage director)
Das Rheingold (stage director)
Die Walküre (stage director)
Siegfried (stage director)
Götterdämmerung (stage director)
1902
Der fliegende Holländer (stage director)
Das Rheingold (stage director)
Die Walküre (stage director)
Siegfried (stage director)
Götterdämmerung (stage director)
1904
Tannhäuser (stage director)
Das Rheingold (stage director)
Die Walküre (stage director)
Siegfried (stage director)
Götterdämmerung (stage director)
1906
Tristan und Isolde (stage director)
Das Rheingold (stage director)
Die Walküre (stage director)
Siegfried (stage director)
Götterdämmerung (stage director)
1908
Das Rheingold (stage director)
Die Walküre (stage director)
Siegfried (stage director)
Götterdämmerung (stage director)
1909
Das Rheingold (stage director)
Die Walküre (stage director)
Siegfried (stage director)
Götterdämmerung (stage director)
1911
Das Rheingold (stage director)
Die Walküre (stage director)
Siegfried (stage director)
Götterdämmerung (stage director)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (stage director)
1912
Das Rheingold (stage director)
Die Walküre (stage director)
Siegfried (stage director)
Götterdämmerung (stage director)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (stage director)
1914
Das Rheingold (stage director)
Die Walküre (stage director)
Siegfried (stage director)
Götterdämmerung (stage director)
1924
Das Rheingold (stage director)
Die Walküre (stage director)
Siegfried (stage director)
Götterdämmerung (stage director)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (stage director)
1925
Das Rheingold (stage director)
Die Walküre (stage director)
Siegfried (stage director)
Götterdämmerung (stage director)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (stage director)
1927
Das Rheingold (stage director)
Die Walküre (stage director)
Siegfried (stage director)
Götterdämmerung (stage director)
1928
Das Rheingold (stage director)
Die Walküre (stage director)
Siegfried (stage director)
Götterdämmerung (stage director)
1930
Das Rheingold (stage director)
Die Walküre (stage director)
Siegfried (stage director)
Götterdämmerung (stage director)
1931
Das Rheingold (stage director)
Die Walküre (stage director)
Siegfried (stage director)
Götterdämmerung (stage director)
From Cosima Wagner's Diaries
At lunch a dismal occurrence; Fidi behaves badly toward his father; the dreadful thought that he might prove unworthy of him takes possession of me, and this thought, instead of being turned against myself in resigned acknowledgement of original sin, turns inside me against my child, and I hit him, so violently that it causes bruises. No words, not even my sobs, can express the horror I feel about myself – oh, fortunate people who lived in times when one could atone! In this instance, as always, R. heavenly toward me. But, alas, no kindness could help me here, and with dread I ask myself what demon constantly lurks in one to cause a normally calm person thus to lose all sense of proportion. It was the first time – will it be the last? I am afraid, and in my desperation I struggle to regain the self-control which is habitual to me. It is not life I now fear, I think, and it is also not death or other people, but myself!
Cosima Wagner: Diaries. 22 July 1878
Said about Cosima Wagner
Hugo Wolf
I saluted Cosima very respectfully, but she did not consider it worth the trouble to bestow on me a single glance; indeed she is known to the whole world as an exceedingly hautghty and conceited lady.
Quoted from Derek Watson: Richard Wagner - A Biography
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