Black Sabbath - Who Are You

However, the serene life was overshadowed by one circumstance - the hope of staging Tristan and Isolde in Vienna had to be abandoned. Ander finally lost his voice; Wagner refused to entrust the party of Tristan to another singer, having decided for a while to completely betray the whole enterprise to complete oblivion and waiting for the right mood to resume work on the Nuremberg Mastersingers. Most likely, it was the desire to take up the pen again that served as the true reason for Wagner's refusal to fight for Tristan. He wanted nothing to distract him.