
Portrait photograph of Richard Wagner, Franz Hanfstaengl (1804-1877), Munich.
Apparently so according to a BBC news snippet:
Forget all the blood and gore of the Ring cycle, the composer, Richard Wagner, appears to have had a feminine side. A letter published this week has suggested that the creator of the Neibelung was not averse to donning a frock in the evenings. The letter, from 1874 and addressed to a Milanese dress shop, asks for something "graceful for evenings at home" with "a high collar and trimmed with puffed flounces".
I wonder what Hitler and Mad King Ludwig would have thought?

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