Opera is one of the most exciting and complex art forms, combining theater, orchestra, staging, costume, acting, singing, dancing, and everything else associated with musical drama. For over 400 years, composers have created operatic masterpieces that have thrilled audiences around the world. Explore the stories, characters and music of the following operas with Robert W. Butts, one of New Jersey's leading opera conductors: 

• La cambiale di matrimonio (Gioachino Rossini)
• Daughter of the Regiment (Gaetano Donizetti)
• Fallstaff (Giuseppe Verdi)
• Tosca (Giacomo Puccini)
• Peter Grimes (Benjamin Britten)