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Index
Half title page
Cambridge Companions to Music
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: opera studies today
Part I Institutions
1 Opera, the state and society
2 The business of opera
3 The operatic event: opera houses and opera audiences
Part II Constituents
4 ‘Too much music’: the media of opera
5 Voices and singers
6 Opera and modes of theatrical production
7 Opera and the technologies of theatrical production
Part III Forms
8 The dramaturgy of opera
9 Genre and poetics
10 The operatic work: texts, performances, receptions and repertories
Part IV Issues
11 Opera and gender studies
12 Opera and national identity
13 ‘An exotic and irrational entertainment’: opera and our others; opera as other
Further reading
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