IDU: How to compose an Opera

For more than 400 years, audiences have been mesmerized by the complicated beauty of opera. For many the pinnacle of an art form that tells a story through singing and music. So where does a composer start if he or she want to compose an opera? Musician and composer Terence Blanchard joins William Shatner on this week's episode of 'I Don't Understand' to discuss how to compose an opera.

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