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It was a time when art thrived on transfigurations, spirits, fallen angels, sylphs and supernatural obsessions, redemptive sacrifices of which Wagner’s Parsifal would later become, after the gift of Senta and the burning of the Valkyrie, the most accomplished expression. Good and evil, body and spirit, essential conflicts that are unfortunately sometimes overplayed by the excessive sweetness of certain Romantic poets. So many little flowers under her feet, so many babbling brooks around this delightful Péri, a product of the