Wagner arrived in Paris in 1839.
Paris was one of Europe's cultural centers at the time. Wagner had long admired this land and hoped to display his artistic talent here, but things did not go as he wished. He was completely swallowed up by an "ocean" teeming with talent.
Wagner had no opportunity to stage his own works and could only make a living copying musical scores. His three years in Paris were the poorest period of his life. Once, holes in the soles of his shoes left him unable to go out because he could not afford a new pair. He could not even afford the cheapest razor and was often hungry. In his autobiography, My Life, Wagner wrote this recollection: "One day, I reached the very depths of poverty. Because I truly had not a penny, I rushed out early and walked all the way to Paris, for I had no money at all to buy a ticket for transport. I kept hoping that even five francs would do. So I wandered the streets of Paris all day until dusk. In the end, my mission still came to nothing, and I had no choice but to walk back to Meudon as I had come."
"Flowering Paris is a city full of talent, but perhaps there were simply too many flowers like Wagner, dazzling people until they did not know how to choose." In the small pavilion opposite Linderhof Palace, the vampire Giovanni spoke as though recounting a story. "In the seventeenth century, Italian opera swept across Europe. Composers in every country developed their own national operas, fighting against Italian opera and the vulgar, fashionable tastes pursued by court nobles. Louis XIV approved the use of French government funds to build France's first opera house, the Royal Opera House,