The phrase "about making an opera" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the topic or process of creating an opera, whether in a formal or informal context.
Example: "The workshop will focus on the challenges and joys about making an opera from scratch."
Alternatives: "regarding the creation of an opera" or "concerning the production of an opera."
When the Flemish Opera approached Czernowin about making an opera of "Front," she initially resisted, feeling that she had spent enough time in the realm of war.
After completing the songs, Humperdinck set about making an opera from the text, first as a singspiel - a sequence of self-contained songs with dialogue, which he presented to his fiancee as an engagement present at the end of 1890 - and then, more slowly, as a full-scale opera, through-composed and complete with orchestral interludes, which was completed in 1893.
He states a belief that anyone else could have written any of the other tunes, but only he and Mick would have thought about making an opera out of the blues.
But by making an opera about television a source of entertainment for the Everyman they are, perforce, creating a marriage of high and low.
It's almost like making an opera.
"Jerry Springer is very American," Mr. Alvarez said recently, "but only the British would make an opera about him".
Indeed, Sellars, who had had the original idea to make an opera about Klinghoffer's murder, thought Goodman was too hard on the hijackers.
I couldn't imagine how it would make an opera".
I think my mission thus far as a director was about making opera available to a wider public -- such as families and children -- which I'm very committed to.
"At the end of the day, it's about making good opera but also being willing to take artistic liberties and do new things," Norton-Hale concluded.
That is what making a set for opera is all about – encouraging one to suspend disbelief, or rather encouraging belief in the unbelievable".
