Is opera like heroin?

Started by Mozart, June 30, 2009, 08:20:21 PM

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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.
"I am the musical tree, eat of my fruit and your spirit shall rejoiceth!"
- Amadeus 6:26

greg

Tristan und Isolde is like....

snyprrr

One is too many and a thousand is never enough.

Wendell_E

Quote from: snyprrr on June 30, 2009, 09:30:52 PM
One is too many and a thousand is never enough.

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

"Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." ― Mark Twain

springrite

Quote from: snyprrr on June 30, 2009, 09:30:52 PM
One is too many and a thousand is never enough.

Oh, so it is just like cigarrette!
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

DarkAngel

#5
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


Josquin des Prez

Quote from: Mozart on June 30, 2009, 08:20:21 PM
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

"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

eyeresist

Quote from: Josquin des Prez on July 01, 2009, 10:49:25 AM
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! ;D I'm only going by what I've read.)
Imagination + discipline = creativity

eyeresist

#14
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

Quote from: snyprrr on July 01, 2009, 11:03:53 AM
The only difference between a drug and a medication is... dosage!

The medicinal heroine addict at work! :D