Stage rehearsal with Mime and Alberich. The tenor Engelhardt sang something before the Master (from Walküre Siegmund). Moved to Gießel’s lodgings. In the afternoon I was visited by my host’s two eldest sons.
At seven o’clock, swimming rehearsal. It begins, albeit amid sweat and exertion, to proceed well, and the Master has a jovial face and makes poor jokes. Kögl,[1] the singer of Hagen, has arrived from Hamburg. He possesses for Hagen a head as though he had expressly ordered it for the part.
[1] In the performance later, Siehr sang the role of Hagen.