Saturday, 9 April 1881

I go to the Chamber with my father, then we visit Tony, and in the evening to Patti in Semiramide. How tedious this masterpiece is!
Among the company: Mmes Reille, Gavini, Odette; Wodzinsky, Engelhardt, Kiki.
I am very tired.

Notes

The Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the French parliament, sitting in the Palais Bourbon. ↩
Semiramide (1823): opera by Rossini after Voltaire’s tragedy Sémiramis. ↩