The magnificence and beauty of its architecture, the details, and even the elaborate and gorgeous stage curtain blew me away.

Not only was I very sensitive to it, but this was just the preamble to what I was going to experience: my first time to the opera, and it was The Traviata. I am unable to express the overwhelming feeling I had, yet when so much beauty surrounds you and touches all your senses, you might as well let it all in and let it flow :)