Introduction

Opera is perhaps, the most elaborate, dramatic, and nonaccessible of all art forms. It may call on the skills of poets, composers, librettists, scenographers, technicians, choreographers, and the director to create a complete work of art or to all on Wagner’s term, Gesamkunstwerk. It can offer its creators a breadth of resource unknown to mast forms of art. As a team, the performers make immortal sketches in history while transcending life itself. Here are their stories that continue to sing around the world every day.