The Process of Making an Opera

I will sing in some capacity in this opera. Do you sing to compose? I do sing to compose. Sometimes the process of making an opera is upside down and insight out from how operas are usually made. So in that case, sometimes I sing, but I'm actually trying to hear what an operatic voice would do with some of these lines. And there's a lot of speaking because some of the passages,. the music functions as the environment and they're having a conversation or recitative.