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http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,2023849,00.html
Wagner - public genius with a private passion for bustles, bows
and bodices
Composer's notes to couturiers suggest he may have been a secret
cross-dresser
Charlotte Higgins, arts correspondent
Thursday March 1, 2007
The Guardian
A previously unpublished letter by Richard Wagner to a firm of Milanese
couturiers offers the intriguing possibility that the great composer
was, in fact, a cross-dresser.
The letter is published for the first time today in the inaugural
edition of the Wagner Journal. In it, the composer of the Ring des
Nibelungen details the cut of an outfit, ostensibly intended for his
wife, Cosima.
Requesting "something graceful for evenings at home" he continues:
"The bodice will have a high collar, with a lace jabot and ribbons;
close-fitting sleeves; the dress trimmed with puffed flounces - of
the same satin material - no basque at the front (the dress must be
very wide and have a train) but a rich bustle with a bow at the back,
like the one at the front) ..."
Janos Gereben/SF
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