Opera is often described as “total art”, and rightfully so, as it encompasses all the artistic disciplines: not only composition, music and singing, but also the arts of acting and dancing, painting, sculpting and, nowadays, even filmmaking. In opera, all of these arts are used to offer the audience an incredible journey into a world of dreams and fiction; not to mention the talent and commitment of the architect who designs and builds such a vessel, the intelligence of the director, and the intuition of those who create the program and compile its repertoire. This all amounts to an entire world at the center of which the voices of the singers burst forth and then blossom to bring us to the heart of the poem.
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