附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-283) and index.
Introduction : the difference is they sing -- Singing Greek tragedy -- When opera was still serious -- Ariosto and his children -- Don Giovanni : the impossible opera -- What Peter Sellars did to Mozart -- Norma : the case for bel canto -- Hugo sung and unsung : or why we put up with dumb opera plots -- Sex and religion in French opera -- Nuremberg used and abused -- Whatever became of the breastplates? -- What makes Otello work? -- The odd couple : Offenbach and Hoffmann -- The Janáček boom -- Herr von Words and Doctor Music -- The twentieth century takes on Shakespeare -- Artists on the opera stage.
