Berlioz conceived the role of Cassandra for a mezzo-soprano, but that has not stopped sopranos from singing it.
But he abandoned all sense of the doable when he conceived the role of the brash nature boy, Siegfried, the son of the demigods Siegmund and Sieglinde.
"It's like seeing her for the first time," said Nancy Meyers, a friend, who not only wrote and directed the film but conceived the role with her in mind.
In his music Shakur, who was murdered in 1996, could be both a swaggering thug and a sensitive, wounded manchild, and Mr. Singleton initially conceived the role of Jody with him in mind.
George Gershwin had conceived the role of "Sportin' Life" in his 1935 jazz opera Porgy and Bess for Calloway; the entertainer finally got his chance at the part during a heralded world tour of the show in 1952 54.
Instead, he conceived the role of philosophy as benefiting people generally, in the widest sense of a cosmopolitan ethics and even politics.
But the series' creator, Ryan Murphy, conceived the role of Kurt — a bully-dodging show queen who gives killer makeovers — especially for him.
Hence, Lotze counted the axioms of geometry as "self-evident truths," their very self-evidence being grounded in their intuitive nature: "he conceived the role of intuition as that of revealing the self-evident" (ibid).
The director, Coppola, respected how Brando conceived the role, and he gave him the freedom to play it.
But Ms. Cojocaru conceives the role more as a dance-actress than as a musician or a classical stylist.
