I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.
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