Note 1 — Chapter XXVIII · Private Performances at the Hof Theater at Munich
Ethel Harriet Hearn translation
Among other pieces which were performed privately in 1872 were: Comtesse du Barry, Le Comte de Saint Germain, Un Ministre sous Louis XV.
From 1872–77 not a single opera was performed privately; but in 1878 he heard Verdi’s Aïda, with Wagner’s Siegfrid-idyl as the introduction. In 1879 he caused Der Ring des Niebelungen to be performed four times in succession. In 1880 he heard Wagner’s Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, and Verdi’s Aïda. In 1881 Gluck’s Iphegenie auf Tauris, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, and Weber’s Oberon. In 1882 Gluck’s Armida, Wagner’s Tannhäuser, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Lohengrin, and Meyerbeer’s Huguenots. In 1883 Der Ring des Niebelungen, Der Fliegende Holländer. In 1884 Tristan und Isolde, and six times Parsifal. Besides this were given at his command Die Stumme von Portici, by Auber, and again Gluck’s Armida. In 1885, in the month of April, he heard Parsifal three times. Of plays he saw this year Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell, Sardou’s Theodora, Brachvogel’s Narcisz, and several pieces by Carl von Heigel, a gifted Bavarian writer who for a number of years wrote and adapted dramatic works for the King’s private performances. ↑