Illustrations

5.1 Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande. Left to right : Arkel (Robert Lloyd), Golaud (Willard White) and Mélisande (Elise Ross).

5.2 Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle . Judith (Katherine Ciesinski) and Bluebeard (Henk Smit).

6.1 Berg’s Lulu . Yvonne Minton as Countess Geschwitz in Act III scene 2.

7.1 Busoni’s Arlecchino : cover design to vocal score, 1917.

7.2 Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler : costume design for Ursula by Jürg Stockar.

9.1 Busoni’s Doktor Faust : poster for Hans Neuenfels’ production at Frankfurt Opera, 1980.

10.1 Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre .

15.1 Four-act structure of Glass’s Einstein on the Beach .

15.2 Act III of The Cave , by Steve Reich and Beryl Korot.

16.1 Britten’s Owen Wingrave . The Wingrave family confront Owen. Left to right : Miss Wingrave (Sylvia Fisher), General Sir Philip Wingrave (Peter Pears), Kate Julian (Janet Baker) and Mrs Julian (Jennifer Vyvyan).

16.2 Britten’s Owen Wingrave . The Wingrave family at the dining table. Left to right : Kate Julian (Charlotte Hellekant), Miss Wingrave (Josephine Barstow) and Mrs Julian (Elizabeth Gale).

16.3 Britten’s Owen Wingrave : Owen (Gerald Finley) enters the haunted family mansion.

19.1 Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto .