The Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies

Contents

• Introduction opera studies today Nicholas Till;
• Part I . Institutions:
• 1. Opera, the state and society Thomas Ertman;
• 2. The business of opera Nicholas Payne;
• 3. The operatic event: opera houses and opera audiences Nicholas Till;
• Part II . Constituents:
• 4. 'Too much music': the media of opera Christopher Morris;
• 5. Voices and singers Susan Rutherford;
• 6. Opera and modes of theatrical production Simon Williams;
• 7. Opera and the technologies of theatrical production Nicholas Ridout;
• Part III . Forms:
• 8. The dramaturgy of opera Laurel E. Zeiss;
• 9. Genre and poetics Alessandra Campana;
• 10. The operatic work: texts, performances, receptions and repertories Nicholas Till;
• Part IV . Issues:
• 11. Opera and gender studies Heather Hadlock;
• 12. Opera and national identity Suzanne Aspden;
• 13. 'An exotic and irrational entertainment': opera and our others, opera as other Nicholas Till.