The angel films of Wim Wenders : a restoration of eternal perspective through aesthetic recollections of the preexistence -- Die Zauberflöte : Mozart's magical celebration of apotheosis, the man/woman monad, and the temple as blueprint for the celestial life -- Beethoven's Fidelio--Leonore's search for, discovery, and resurrection of her husband Florestan : yet another retelling of the myth of Isis and Osiris (with a digression on Der Freischütz) -- Wolfram's Parzivâl : redeeming the race of Adam and Eve through Metanoia and by Imitatio Christi--from a wagon load of sin to the perfection of paradise--from serpent-bruised heel to the atonement of the true lover -- Fulfillment or anticlimax? The Parzivâl story as Richard Wagner's sacred Bühnenweihfestspiel -- From adulteress to goddess : repentance, apotheosis, and eternal marriage in Der Rosenkavalier of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss -- Die Frau ohne Schatten by Hofmannsthal and Strauss--a tally of our themes in one symbolic sum.
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