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: 

• Marriage of Figaro (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
• Il giorno di regno (Guiseppe Verdi)
• Romeo et Juliette (Charles Gounod)
• Tristan und Isolde (Richard Wagner)
• War and Peace (Sergei Prokofief)