ElseElsa PorgesBernstein was an AustrianGerman writer and dramatist of Jewish descent.
Elsa Porges was born in Vienna, a daughter of Heinrich Porges . At ageand at her own insistence, she attended the first complete fouropera performance of The Ring Cycle in Bayreuth in 1876, for which her father served as Wagners special documentarianarchivist. Elsa was the cycles youngest audience member.
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