The Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies
- Editor: Till, Nicholas
In both the clarity of its organization and the uniformly high standard of the individual essays, this is an outstanding collection —
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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.