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pt. 1. The resourcing of grand operas. The 'machine' and the state / Hervé Lacombe
Fictions and librettos / Nicholas White
The spectacle of the past in grand opera / Simon Williams
The chorus / James Parakilas
Dance and dancers / Marian Smith
Roles, reputations, shadows : singers at the Opéra, 1828-1849 / Mary Ann Smart.
pt. 2. Revaluation and the twenty-first century. Directing grand opera : Rienzi and Guillaume Tell at the Vienna State Opera / David Pountney.
pt. 3. Grand operas for Paris. La Muette and her context / Sarah Hibberd
Scribe and Auber : constructing grand opera / Herbert Schneider
Meyerbeer : Robert le Diable and Les Huguenots / Matthias Brzoska
Meyerbeer : Le Prophète and L'Africaine / John H. Roberts
The grand operas of Fromental Halévy / Diana R. Hallman
From Rossini to Verdi / M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet
After 1850 at the Paris Opéra : institution and repertory / Steven Huebner.
pt. 4. Transformations of grand opera. Richard Wagner and the legacy of French grand opera / Thomas Grey
Grand opera in Russia : fragments of an unwritten history / Marina Frolova-Walker
Grand opera among the Czechs / Jan Smaczny
Italian opera / Fiamma Nicolodi
Grand opera in Britain and the Americas / Sarah Hibberd.
Fictions and librettos / Nicholas White
The spectacle of the past in grand opera / Simon Williams
The chorus / James Parakilas
Dance and dancers / Marian Smith
Roles, reputations, shadows : singers at the Opéra, 1828-1849 / Mary Ann Smart.
pt. 2. Revaluation and the twenty-first century. Directing grand opera : Rienzi and Guillaume Tell at the Vienna State Opera / David Pountney.
pt. 3. Grand operas for Paris. La Muette and her context / Sarah Hibberd
Scribe and Auber : constructing grand opera / Herbert Schneider
Meyerbeer : Robert le Diable and Les Huguenots / Matthias Brzoska
Meyerbeer : Le Prophète and L'Africaine / John H. Roberts
The grand operas of Fromental Halévy / Diana R. Hallman
From Rossini to Verdi / M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet
After 1850 at the Paris Opéra : institution and repertory / Steven Huebner.
pt. 4. Transformations of grand opera. Richard Wagner and the legacy of French grand opera / Thomas Grey
Grand opera in Russia : fragments of an unwritten history / Marina Frolova-Walker
Grand opera among the Czechs / Jan Smaczny
Italian opera / Fiamma Nicolodi
Grand opera in Britain and the Americas / Sarah Hibberd.