Resurrecting the dead: Opera and the power of storytelling | Rebecca Renfro | TEDxSHSU

[applause] [applause] I am an opera director. I know it sounds like a madeup job, but I promise it's real and it's really fun. I actually get paid to be around beautiful singing and costumes and lights and sets, you know, really glamorous, over-the-top stuff. Now, in the classical music world, we sometimes joke that our work involves recreating the music of dead white guys, you know, Puchini, Veri, Mozart. And admittedly, opera can be offputting to some people. I mean, it's hard to relate to a guy in a powd ...