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Opium Dream - Symphonie Fantastique, Reveries - Passions by Hector Berlioz

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Uploaded by on Oct 29, 2011

Opium Dream is a short film by Arthur (16) and Christiaan (18) Schoonenberg.

Hector Berlioz wrote in 1855 the following:

A young musician of morbid sensitivity and ardent imagination poisons himself with opium in a moment of despair caused by frustrated love. The dose of narcotic, while too weak to cause his death, plunges him into a heavy sleep accompanied by the strangest of visions, in which his experiences, feelings and memories are translated in his feverish brain into musical thoughts and images. His beloved becomes for him a melody and like an idée fixe which he meets and hears everywhere.

He remembers first the uneasiness of spirit, the indefinable passion, the melancholy, the aimless joys he felt even before seeing his beloved; then the explosive love she suddenly inspired in him, his delirious anguish, his fits of jealous fury, his returns of tenderness, his religious consolations.

Enjoy!

Symphonie Fantastique, Rêveries - Passions, First Movement by Zubin Mehta & London Philharmonic Orchestra

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  • Very artistic idea! :)

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