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|quote=Oh, I hate the thought of all those costumes and grease paint! When I think that characters like Kundry will now have to be dressed up, those dreadful artists' balls immediately spring into my mind. Having created the invisible orchestra, I now feel like inventing the invisible theatre!

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Source

  • Cosima Wagner's Diaries: An Abridgment (Geoffrey Skelton), September 23, 1878.