Introduction: representing blackness on the operatic stage
From Otello to Porgy: blackness, masculinity, and morality in opera / Naomi André
Hearing the other in The masque of blackness / Sarah Schmalenberger
Nationalism, racial difference, and "Egyptian" meaning in Verdi's Aida / Christopher R. Gauthier and Jennifer McFarlane-Harris
Race, "realism," and fate in Frederick Delius's Koanga / Eric Saylor
Political currents and black culture in Scott Joplin's Treemonisha / Ann Sears
Clarence Cameron White's Ouanga! in the world of the Harlem Renaissance / Karen M. Bryan
New paradigms in William Grant Still's Blue steel / Gayle Murchison
Performers in Catfish Row: Porgy and Bess as collaboration / Gwynne Kuhner Brown
Searching for "authenticity" in Paul Bowles's Denmark Vesey / Melissa J. de Graaf
The politics of color in Oscar Hammerstein's Carmen Jones / Melinda Boyd
Performing race in Ernst Krenek's Jonny spielt auf / Jonathan O. Wipplinger
Il rodolfo nero, or the masque of blackness / George Shirley.