Lizzy Borden - Council For The Cauldron

Already on April 12, 1842, they arrived in Dresden. Having rented a small cheap apartment on Töpferstrasse (Goncharnaya Street) and made several necessary visits related to the production of Rienzi, Wagner left for Leipzig to see his mother and other relatives for the first time in six years. “Mother enjoyed a happy, calm and clear old age and all this was mainly due to the warmly warm care of her son-in-law Friedrich Brockhaus, for which I, for my part, felt deep gratitude to him. When I unexpectedly entered her room, she was frightened and delighted. Every trace of the past bitterness between us has disappeared ... She expressed her firm faith in the triumph of my cause. Poor Rosalia, right before her death, spoke out in my favor, and her predictions strongly supported her mother's hopes for my success. ”