Opera wasn’t his favorite genre, but he could feel any kind of music in his soul, if he was to be frank. If asked, of course he was a rocker. Not currently, naturally, but for the moment he was sitting in the theatre, drawn in by the familiar sound of an unfamiliar act. An unfamiliar opera. And so he had sat, letting himself be enveloped by the sound.
It elicited...Something in him. Evoking some long-buried emotion in him that hadn’t been quite drawn out by anyone he had spoken to. By the end, he and many others had been wiping away a few stray tears before standing and clapping.
It was astounding, truly.
A woman next to him seemed similarly moved, and he laughed with a sniffle. “Forgive me, Frau, but I have nothing to wipe my tears or yours.”
“I had not thought to hear something that would move me to tears. When the protagonist lost her great love to a castle across the poisoned sea...The crescendo of emotion was almost too much to bear.”