På svensk Tv har de ju tagit ”time-out” inför Vinter-OS.

Nu kan jag kompensera mig genom att bläddra i alla intressanta program som de sänder på AxessTV.
Senast såg jag ett väldigt intressant program som i Sverige benämndes efter hans fru Cosima Wagner men mera ”approbiate” i den engelska urverionen hette som titeln ovan.

Den bygger bl.a. på de dagböcker som Cosima förde från 1869 till Richard Wagners död 1883, (Korrigerat!) och hittades i ett bankvalv först 1972.

I denna dramadokumentär menar man att Wagner behövde kvinnliga muser, för att kunna skapa sina passionerade kompositioner. Den första, som resulterade i Tristan och Isolde var Mathilde Wesendonck.
Den andra musan var just Cosima. Hon var, som dotter till Franz Liszt Richards intellektuelle jämlike och förstod Rickards genialitet, och vigde sitt liv åt att i livet stödja hans skaparkraft.
Efter hans död var det hon som kraftfullt förvaltade och ledde Bayreuthfestspelen i 20 år.
Hon blev 93 år!

Den tredje musan:
If Mathilde Wesendonck was the muse who inspired Wagner to create Tristan und Isolde, then the muse of Parsifal was the young and beautiful Judith Gautier:

Wagner’s sybaritism is one of the less repellant features of his personality. He could not bear to have any coarse material against his skin, perhaps as the result of a medical condition, and for many years dressed in silk or satin underwear. During his later years, including the period during which he was working on the score of Parsifal, Wagner’s working environment too was draped in silks and satins, in his favourite colours, and soaked in perfume. It was in these surroundings of extravagant sensuousness that the music of Parsifal, a work that apparently celebrates renunciation and chastity, was brought into the world. The music of Parsifal was to be at the furthest remove possible from that of the Ring, he told Cosima: the music was to have the softness and shimmer of silk, like cloud-layers that keep separating and combining again. Wagner’s surviving letters include several in which he give instructions for the purchase of fabrics and perfumes. Care had to be taken that these letters did not fall into the wrong hands, since their publication would be an embarassment. During the composition of Parsifal, many of these errands were performed by Judith Gautier