The Cambridge companion to opera studies / edited by Nicholas Till.

Introduction : opera studies today / Nicholas Till
Opera, the state and society / Thomas Ertman
The business of opera / Nicholas Payne
The operatic event : opera houses and opera audiences / Nicholas Till
'Too much music' : the media of opera / Christopher Morris
Voices and singers / Susan Rutherford
Opera and modes of theatrical production / Simon Williams
Opera and the technologies of theatrical production / Nicholas Ridout
The dramaturgy of opera / Laurel E. Zeiss
Genre and poetics / Alessandra Campana
The operatic work : texts, performances, receptions and repertories / Nicholas Till
Opera and gender studies / Heather Hadlock
Opera and national identity / Suzanne Aspden
'An exotic and irrational entertainment' : opera and our others : opera as other / Nicholas Till.