When a startup has too much fuel too quickly the resulting conflagration ends up consuming both the company and the founders, and there is little help for the investors.
The theatre was also able to use new electrical lighting effects to create a powerful sunrise, and to depict the conflagration which ends the opera.
Now, exactly 100 years to the day since the beginning of that global conflagration that ended with 16 million dead and 20 million wounded, the world seems at a boiling point once more, from Europe to the Middle East.
There is something glorious in the conflagration of everything at the end.
In her epilogue, she writes of being ambushed by the beauty she found in these writers' deaths: "There is something glorious in the conflagration of everything at the end".
In the end, analysts said, the conflagration was a tragic byproduct of an industry in which global brands and retailers, encouraged by hundreds of millions of consumers around the world, are still primarily motivated by the bottom line.
But by the time the conflagration of World War I has put an end to the Hapsburg empire, the bloodshed in this Galician town on Easter Sunday 1914 has faded into insignificance.
The world is constituted so that everything that is going to happen, including the conflagration of the world when it comes to an end, is from the very beginning part of it.
First came the conflagration that brings about the fall of the gods at the end of Wagner's "Götterdämmerung," and now the fiery finale that martyrs a religious sect in Mussorgsky's "Khovanshchina," which opened on Monday.
Similarly, Japan was reeling in the Pacific Theater, and the journalism of the day reflected the sense that the conflagration that had raged across three continents was nearly at an end.
Though hostilities officially ended in 2003, sporadic attacks continue and 5.4 million people have died in the conflagration, mostly due to disease and starvation.
