Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-297) and index.
Contents:
Anatomy of a war horse: Il trovatore from A to Z -- On opera and society (assuming a relationship) -- Opera and the novel: antithetical or complementary? -- Opera by other means -- Opera and/as lyric -- From separatism to union: aesthetic theorizing from Reynolds to Wagner -- Toward a characterization of modernist opera -- Anti-theatricality in twentieth-century opera -- A brief consumers' history of opera.
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