Operatic Migrations: Transforming Works and Crossing Boundaries
- Author: Marvin, Roberta Montemorra
- Editor: Thomas, Downing A.
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Contents
- Contents: Introduction: Migrations and transformations, Roberta Montemorra Marvin
- Venice: cradle of (operatic) convention, Ellen Rosand
- 'Je vous repondrez au troisieme couplet': 18th-century opera comique and the demands of speech, Downing A. Thomas
- From the Comedie-FranAaise to the Opera: Figaro at the crossroads, Tili Boon Cuille
- Ideological noises: opera criticism in early 18th-century France, Charles Dill
- Transformations on stage only: Anfossi's Circe in Weimar, Waltraud Maierhofer
- Roman republicanism and operatic heroines in Napoleonic Italy: Tarchi's La congiura pisoniana and Cimarosa's Gli Orazi e i Curiazi, Robert C. Ketterer
- Ghostly voices: 'Gothic Opera' and the failure of Gounod's La Nonne sanglante, Anne Williams
- Mozart productions and the emergence of Werktreue at London's Italian Opera House, 1780-1830, Rachel Cowgill
- The mirror of art and scenes of recognition: Wagner and Mann, Grace Kehler
- Burlesques, barriers, borders, and boundaries, Roberta Montemorra Marvin
- Local color: the representation of race in Carmen and Carmen Jones, Robert L.A. Clark
- Operatic school for scandal, David J. Levin
- Why (what? How? If?) opera studies?, Herbert Lindenberger
- Epilog, Downing A. Thomas
- Index.