 The full score of the first act was now complete (in pencil), and a fair copy had been made (in ink) of the opening scene; the developed draft of the second act was finished, but the full score had not yet been begun.At this point Wagner once again put the opera aside to concentrate on "Tristan und Isolde".Seven years would pass before he took it up again, during which time he completed "Tristan" and started "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg".