- Preface
- 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 Become 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
Topics covered by this book
- Norma (drama) • p156 • 7: Norma: The Case for Bel Canto
- Otello (drama) • p215 • 12: What makes Otello work?
- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (drama) • p193 • 10: Nuremberg Used and Abused
- Don Giovanni (drama) • p120 • 5: Don Giovanni: The Impossible Opera
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