“I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn,” Kanye West has said. And learn he certainly did. He’s won 21 Grammy Awards, and works as a record producer, entrepreneur, and fashion designer. (There was even a rumored run for president.) What next? West has written an opera—or rather, “A Kanye West Opera”—about the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar. The invites, gold-plated, were designed by Nick Knight. —E.C.