In Mein Leben, Wagner wrote "When I look back across my entire life I find no event to place beside this in the impression it produced on me," and claimed that the "profoundly human and ecstatic performance of this incomparable artist" kindled in him an "almost demonic fire."
En Mein Leben, Wagner escribiu "cando miro atrás a través de toda a miña vida non encontro un acontecemento que producira unha impresión tan profunda en min", e afirmou que a "interpretación profundamente humana e extasiante desta incomparable artista" acendeu nel un "lume case demoníaco".