“’Her nature intended her for the representation of ideal heroines whose love is pure, and it does not allow her to depict the violence of physical passion and the delirium of the senses. She is an artist of the peaks, whose feet may not descend into the plain and follow its ignominious route,’ And then here: ‘He who has seen her as the spotless spouse of the son of Parsifal, standing by the window, has assisted at the mystery of the chaste soul awaiting the coming of her predestined lover,’ And ‘He who has seen her as Elizabeth, ascending the hillside, has felt the nostalgia of the skies awaken in his heart,’ Then he goes on to say that her special genius and her antecedents led her to ‘Fidelio,’ and designed her as the perfect embodiment of Leonore’s soul—that pure, beautiful soul made w
