Opera in transition / Arnold Whittall
Wagner and beyond / John Deathridge
Puccini and the dissolution of the Italian tradition / Virgilio Bernardoni
Words and actions / Caroline Harvey
Symbolist opera : trials, triumphs, tributaries / Philip Weller
Expression and construction : the stage works of Schoenberg and Berg / Alan Street
Neo-classical opera / Chris Walton
France and the Mediterranean / Nigel Simeone
Austria and Germany, 1918-1960 / Guido Heldt
Eastern Europe / Rachel Beckles Willson
Russian opera : between modernism and romanticism / Marina Frolova-Walker
American opera : innovation and tradition / Elise K. Kirk
Opera in England : taking the plunge / Christopher Mark
Music theatre since the 1960s / Robert Adlington
Minimalist opera / Arved Ashby
Opera and film / Mervyn Cooke
Popular musical theatre (and film) / Stephen Banfield
Opera in the marketplace / Nicholas Payne
Technology and interpretation : aspects of 'modernism' / Tom Sutcliffe.
