Opera Educator: The Olympic Art That Tells a Story

Hansel (Sarah Klopfenstein) and Gretel (Samantha Jeffreys) discover with surprise that children have been released from their gingerbread state, in a Nashville Opera production of “Hansel and Gretel” directed by Stuart Holt. Reed Hummell/Nashville Opera

For Stuart Holt, opera is awe-inspiring storytelling and, in many ways, the Olympian limb of the classical arts.

Director of the school programs and community engagement departments of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, Holt first came under the spell of opera early in life.