Is opera like heroin?

[Mozart]

Is it just me or does some particular operas give this powerful emotional effect that even prevents you from moving or thinking. Sometimes I have felt my brain just explode, like really as if some kind of emotional bomb blew up in my head and I can't think or move im stuck frozen with this powerful feeling, which rarely happens more than a few times.

I don't even think I like opera, I'm just addicted to it.

[greg]

Tristan und Isolde is like....

[snyprrr]

One is too many and a thousand is never enough.

[Wendell_E]

One is too many and a thousand is never enough.

I guess I'll have to try some heroin to find out.

[springrite]

One is too many and a thousand is never enough.

Oh, so it is just like cigarrette!

[DarkAngel]

Opera is addictive in a positive way.........
Beautiful and challenging combination of orchestral/vocal/stage design/performing art/libretto storyline etc
Positive affirmation of life, enlightening, empowering etc

The negative of opera is that like a heroin addiction it can quickly drain ones wallet........

[Franco]

For some, opera is like heroin in that it causes them to nod off.

[Dr. Dread]

It's like really bad pot.

[Josquin des Prez]

Is it just me or does some particular operas give this powerful emotional effect that even prevents you from moving or thinking. Sometimes I have felt my brain just explode, like really as if some kind of emotional bomb blew up in my head and I can't think or move im stuck frozen with this powerful feeling, which rarely happens more than a few times.

Your intimate knowledge on the effects of heroin is disturbing. Either way, it's not the medium that counts, but how you use it.

[snyprrr]

The only difference between a drug and a medication is... dosage!

[Dr. Dread]

Love is like oxygen.
You get too much, you get too high.
Not enough and you're gonna die.

[DavidRoss]

No.  Ask a junkie. 

[eyeresist]

Your intimate knowledge on the effects of heroin is disturbing. Either way, it's not the medium that counts, but how you use it.

Mozart has obviously never done heroin. "Emotional explosion" is pretty much the opposite of what it does.

[jochanaan]

Opera at its best expands the mind; heroin, from all reports, deadens it.  The "drug" reference I think of for opera is LSD.  (No personal experience with either of those two non-opera drugs! I'm only going by what I've read.)

[eyeresist]

I haven't tried LSD, but according to my source (comedian Bill Bailey), its chief effect seem to be obsessive-compulsive pattern finding. Probably more appropriate for Robert Simpson.

[DavidW]

The only difference between a drug and a medication is... dosage!

The medicinal heroine addict at work!