This happens even before a 
concert has begun: the set-up of the stage and a seat in the concert hall already make us feel we are having an intense experience.
Even if we “only” seem to listen,
we experience a concert as something special for all of our senses.

This impression is
enhanced as soon as there is also an interaction between seeing and hearing.

In this case, we perceive our experiences even more positively, whether at the opera or at an open-air concert. Here, the visual stimuli of the surroundings are not shut out as much as in a closed, darkened hall.
When we listen to or make
music together, we feel closer to one another, says neuro-psychologist Annemarie Seither-Preisler.
The brain releases the same substance as during sex or childbirth – a hormone called oxytocin, which signals: “You can be confident, we are a group.”

It is the same feeling of belonging together that fuels the magic of legendary open-air settings.