1. Opera is a classical western tradition where performers combine dramatic scenes with a musical score. Opera includes all the aspects of a spoken play, such as costume, speaking lines, and even dancing, but the addition of the musical score makes it much more dramatic and sets is differences from other types of theater. Light opera, or comic opera, has a much less dramatic nature than a regular opera, and typically has a happier ending as well. Musical theater is very similar to opera, because it contains dialogue along with musical numbers, but it differs because equal importance is given to both the music and the dialogue and other workings of the play. 
2.Fully training someone to have an operatic voice takes many years, and requires an education similar to that of a college education. Singers have to spend years with a teacher learning how to to use the resonance space in your pharynx to give a fuller sound, and also how to amplify their voice so it reaches the back of a crowded opera house, since microphones are not used in opera. Someone with a fully trained operatic voice is less likely to end up in a doctors office with vocal problems, because they are trained the correct way to sing without overworking themselves.
3. La Boheme is one of the most popular operas by Puccini, and has since become a standard in the Italian opera circuit. The opera is about a seamstress and a poet that fall in love, but the poet wishes to eventually leave the seamstress because of her overly flirtatious ways. Unfortunately for the poet, the seamstress is also gravely ill, so he feels too guilty to leave her in her time of need. The poet actually feels guilty because he thinks their time together worsened her condition, since the turmoil that their relationship went through.
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