Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- List of illustrations -- Empty houses, booming voices -- 1. Is this still opera? Media operas as productive provocations -- 2. A new glimmer of light: Opera, metaphysics and mimesis -- 3. The singing body in the Tragédie Lyrique of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France: Voice, theatre, speech, pleasure -- 4. Performing affect in seventeenth-century opera: Process, reception, transgression -- 5. The Violettas of Patti, Muzio and Callas: Style, interpretation and the question of legacy -- 6. The tenor in decline? Narratives of nostalgia and the performativity of the operatic tenor -- 7. The Threepenny Opera: Performativity and the Brechtian presence between music and theatre -- 8. The acousmêtre on stage and screen: The power of the bodiless voice -- 9. Dancing in the twilight: On the borders of music and the scenic -- 10. Turkish post-migrant "opera" in Europe: A socio-historical perspective on aurality -- 11. "Powerful spirit": Notes on some practice as research -- Abstracts -- Notes on contributors -- Bibliography -- Index.