Acknowledgments List of illustrations Dominic Symonds and Pamela Karantonis: Empty houses, booming voices Bianca Michaels: Is this still opera? Media operas as productive provocations Nicholas Till: A new glimmer of light: Opera, metaphysics and mimesis Sarah Nancy: The singing body in the Tragédie Lyrique of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France: Voice, theatre, speech, pleasure Clemens Risi: Performing affect in seventeenth-century opera: Process, reception, transgression Magnus Tessing Schneider: The Violettas of Patti, Muzio and Callas: Style, interpretation and the question of legacy Pamela Karantonis: The tenor in decline? Narratives of nostalgia and the performativity of the operatic tenor Michael Eigtved: The Threepenny Opera: Performativity and the Brechtian presence between music and theatre Jeongwon Joe: The acousmêtre on stage and screen: The power of the bodiless voice David Roesner: Dancing in the twilight: On the borders of music and the scenic Pieter Verstraete: Turkish post-migrant “opera” in Europe: A socio-historical perspective on aurality Dominic Symonds: “Powerful spirit”: Notes on some practice as research Abstracts Notes on contributors Bibliography Index