Introduction : migrations and transformations / Roberta Montemorra Marvin
Venice : the cradle of (operatic) convention / Ellen Rosand
'Je vous répondrez au troisième couplet' : eighteenth-century opéra comique and the demands of speech / Downing A. Thomas
From the comédie-française to the opéra : Figaro at the crossroads / by Tili Boon Cuillé
Ideological noises : opera criticism in early eighteenth-century France / Charles Dill
Transformations : Anfossi's Circe in Weimar / Waltraud Maierhofer
Roman republicanism and operatic heroines in Napoleonic Italy : Tarchi's La congiura pisoniana and Cimarosa's Gli Orazi e i Curiazi / Robert C. Ketterer
Ghostly voices : 'gothic opera' and failure of Gounod's La Nonne sanglante / Anne Williams
Mozart productions and the concept of Werktreue at London's Italian opera / Rachel Cowgill
The mirror of art and scenes of recognition : Wagner and Mann / Grace Kehler
Burlesques, barriers, borders, and boundaries / Roberta Montemorra Marvin
Local color : the representation of race in Carmen and Carmen Jones / Robert L.A. Clark
Operatic school for scandal / David J. Levin
Why (what? how? if?) opera studies? / Herbert Lindenberger
Epilogue / Downing A. Thomas.
Operatic migrations : transforming works and crossing boundaries. ISBN 0754650987. Published by Ashgate in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.