"operatic project" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific performance or production in the opera genre. Example: The prestigious opera company has just announced their latest operatic project, a modern interpretation of Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro."
His latest operatic project is the 10-minute comedy Midsummer, based on a short play by Don Nigro, commissioned and premiered by Boston Opera Collaborative in October 2018.
From the first days of the war, the composer's attention was centred on a very large-scale operatic project: an opera based on Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace.
Working again with Auden and Kallman, he went on to a much bigger operatic project, "The Bassarids," a remake of Euripides' "Bacchae," which was presented at the 1966 Salzburg Festival.
But he did not forget his roots, whether in his abortive operatic project based on Alan Paton's Cry, The Beloved Country; his powerful single-movement Symphony No 2 (1970), inscribed to the memory of the victims of the Sharpeville massacre of a decade earlier; or the suite South of the Line (1985), where he set five anti-Boer war poems by Thomas Hardy for chorus and percussion.
Baker wraps up the survey in 1976, when the most ambitious operatic project in history, Richard Wagner's Ring cycle, was given a celebrated modern staging by director Patrice Chéreau for the centennial of the work's premiere at Bayreuth.
Other operatic projects he was linked to, with other companies, never came to fruition.
The program biography lists some daunting operatic projects for so young a voice.
Beethoven later turned over many other operatic projects in his mind but without bringing any to fruition.
His operatic projects often ran aground for lack of self-confidence, but those that succeeded show a rare and subtle lyric elegance.
Schoenberg's only full-length stage work stands alongside Berg's Lulu, Puccini's Turandot and Busoni's Doktor Faust as one of the great unfinished operatic projects of the 20th century.
In fact the skepticism and materialism of the dominant Positivist philosophy persistently troubled Bizet; it may well have been an inability to reconcile his intelligence with his emotions that caused him to embark on so many operatic projects that he never brought to a conclusion.
