So not everyone is thrilled about his return to the Italian opera scene.

What also comes through is the incredible vitality of the Italian opera scene during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Somehow this bright young light of the opera scene has turned 41.

Students are assigned to carefully selected opera scenes at the start of the program.

The singers, all young Americans, were to perform short opera scenes in the shadow of the 10th-century village church.

The opera scenes were shot using the "play back" method.

By the end of the 1950s he was gone from the international opera scene.

Mullodzhanova became the toast of the opera scene in a very short time.

Troitskaya quickly became an important presence on the international opera scene.

He retired from the opera scene in mid-1980's to focus his attention on teaching the art of music.