Opera and Modern Spectatorship in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy

Contents

• 1. Staging manuals and the public;
• 2. The 'fleeting moment': Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele;
• 3. Milan 1881: Simon Boccanegra and the specters of history;
• 4. Acting in Otello: on the rhetoric of the medium;
• 5. The Real of opera: Puccini's Manon Lescaut;
• 6. Faust again: the silent film Rapsodia satanica and Mascagni's score; Postlude.