A mad love: an introduction to opera

Chapter 1: From gods to mortals

Chapter 2: The beautiful song of Italian opera

Chapter 3: Giants of the nineteenth century

Chapter 4: Realism in an unrealistic medium

Chapter 5: Fin de siècle dissonance to midcentury melody

Chapter 6: Orpheus in the twenty-first century

Capter 7: Ape costumes or period costumes?

Epilogue.