Astrogation and Milestones

‘I cannot live without opera: I always wanted to be an opera star, like Maria Callas or Anna Netrebko, to sing in best theaters and to live in different countries’. This is the de jour statement that I have heard from all my informants. All of them admit longing since childhood to become a global opera star, thus creating the narrative aura of mysticism and magic around their (pre)adolescent ‘elite career desire’. Such statements as ‘I knew I was destined to be an international opera star’ and ‘I always had a gut feeling it was my destiny to sing on best world opera stages’ provoke me to explore how trajectories of their elite migrant networking interact with the flow of their ‘starry’ artistic careers.