Word: sonja
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...look at my watch: I have to leave now if I want to catch the 9 a.m. train. Sonja tells me to stay: “Mornings as pleasant as this one are rare, we don’t know when the next one will be.” Although the next town on my itinerary beckons, and there is precious little time to waste, the 10 a.m. train suddenly appears a viable option. The lush courtyard is really too pleasant to leave...
...maid Gerlinde joins us. She also takes some coffee. “But Sonja, it’s such a beautiful Saturday morning. What I would really like to drink is some champagne...
...Sonja jumps up, and is soon back with a French bottle. Gerlinde fetches glasses and proceeds to uncork the champagne with a confident hand. I am still a little surprised: at the early hour for champagne, and at the friendly atmosphere of this motley group...
...constantly, Wagner drifts in and out, not like a specter, but like an old friend. For Sonja and Gerlinde, Festspiele productions are ways to remember the year something happened. And of course, there were the times when Gerlinde’s brother-in-law worked at the Festspielhaus: How many productions they got to see then...
...warm and Gerlinde’s idea really seems excellent. Soon I have missed the 10 a.m. train. But Richard Wagner is a little closer now. I have found those for whom he is not an elitist pleasure, but just a very regular, if exciting, part of life. As Sonja clucks about a new recording she just bought, and Max asks her to play it for us, I bask in my new understanding of this town...