Opera Season

Opera Season

We’re already knee deep in the season.  It started sometime in September, runs through October. and usually ends sometime in November.  All around the country and the world opera companies are coming back online to launch their new seasons with their fresh operas, and if there were a master animated opera map, little lights would have turned on as each new show began.

Operas are all about blazing speed and intense emotions.  Each opera blends superior lighting, stage movements, hurried plot developments, and those exquisite, haunting songs designed to be sung with either extended hand gestures to lyrical music or aggressive elbow movements with bombastic sounds.  Simply elbowing past the other singers secures more room in the center of the stage.

All the best songs are about something lost, something taken, something changing, or possibly something found again for a golden new future.

In America, the short Opera Season encompasses all these new opera performances, but it also encompasses/competes with other intense performances during this short moment in time each year including:

• Another forest fire season begins and builds especially out west where a different animated forest fire season map has its own little dots of light turning on way too fast and way too often.  The forest fire’s smoke grows more and more opaque before drifting towards larger cities to announce something else has been lost again.  The trees, bugs, animals, and biomass itself belts out their group ending songs.
  
  
• Our political season for our November elections also begins and builds.  At times our politicians mimic our corporations who sound very much like those opera stars singing their songs with either extended hand gestures, or aggressive elbows.  Both politicians and corporations almost always decide to take the aggressive elbow approach by innovating at a faster rate than their competition. Their innovations buy them leverage but they often feel more important when they can simultaneously promote themselves with inspiring thoughts and those eloquent hand gestures.  Often voters /consumers share their opinions during surveys, “He’s all elbows but no hand gestures!”  Perhaps, what’s worse is hearing, “That company is all hand gestures but no elbows, no innovations!”
  
  
• The demise of another summer.  At the end of another summer is the end of another baseball season. As less and less playoff teams gather after each playoff round the cracks of the bats hitting baseballs become less and less.  Cue those big opera singers again. Something about it’s not over until the biggest singers sing.

All this activity and more like new school years beginning, new product releases, new fall harvests, new entertainment shows including new football, and new awards events all circle around each other at faster and faster speeds.  Like all the matter circulating around the event horizon at the edge of a black hole, there probably is a whoosh sound and it’s over.  Suddenly, you can look around and there are holidays decorations and holidays music everywhere again.

Opera Season is over.  We have crossed over. 

The rain and snow arrived again to extinguish the forest fires.  The elections finally occurred, and winners prevailed.  All the awards were given out, all the best new products were all purchased, and the new opera performances were well appreciated and well attended.

Colorful, busy, emotional, surprising, another Opera Season was stupendous again!

During any Opera Season and throughout the year its best to reward the better shows/politicians/corporations that sing with significant eloquent hand gestures for inspiration, while using their elbows to push past the competition with their unique new innovations for better solutions.  Pick wisely.  All those hand gestures by themselves or all those elbow movements by themselves are not good enough.  It takes both to be an effective leader. 

Only the best leaders can successfully guide us to our next Opera Season!