What is Opera?

According to Dictionary.com opera is:

A drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes; theatre where opera is performed.

I would also like to personally add that opera is meant to be a little longer than a typcial play or musical and it is also usually scandalous, pretty vulgar and VERY showy. That's how opera is and how it has always been.

Le Nozze di Tutti has finished it's world premiere and first run here at Hillsdale College. It was lots of fun, I'd do it again in a heart-beat and I hope this campus learns a little about different types of art other than their own. :-)