Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Toward a Multimodal Discourse on Opera -- 2. Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar: A Myth of "Wounded" Freedom -- 3. Kaija Saariaho's Adriana Mater: A Narrative of Trauma and Ambivalence -- 4. John Adams's Doctor Atomic: A Faustian Parable for the Modern Age? -- 5. The Anti-hero in Tan Dun's The First Emperor -- Epilogue: Opera as Myth in the Global Age -- Glossary of Terms -- A -- C -- D -- I -- M -- N -- S -- T -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.