Shadows Fall - Plain Glass Vision

Subsequently, on September 8, 1869, recalling the vicissitudes of that time, Wagner wrote to an old friend Peter Cornelius: “Rumors were brought to the attention of His Majesty that dishonored the honor of Madame F . B yulov. Under such conditions, there was only one thing left for her - to break forever with Munich and achieve a divorce from her husband, whose name and honor she wanted to protect from hatred of people hostile to her. Quite reasonably, she advised him - a few months ago - to leave the hesitation and decide to divorce. She believed that such a step would create more favorable conditions for his further stay in Munich: then no one would have the right to assert that he owed his position to the indulgence of his wife (there were “well-wishers” who really claimed that, knowing full well about the betrayal of his wife , Bulov remains with her only toso as not to lose a profitable place as a conductor of the Munich Court Theater. - M.Z.). In the name of this goal, she was even ready to take on all the cruelties of the divorce proceedings.