The work of opera Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Constituting Opera
1	Kapsberger's Apotheosis ... of Francis Xavier (1622) and the Conquering of India	27
2	The Italian (Castrato) in London	49
Pt. II	Nationhood and Sexual Difference
3	Farinelli's Electronic Hermaphrodite and the Contralto Tradition	73
4	"O Patria Mia": Female Homosociality and the Gendered Nation in Bellini's Norma and Verdi's Aida	93
5	Structures of Identity and Difference in Bizet's Carmen	115
6	The Waters of Prometheus: Nationalism and Sexuality in Wagner's Ring	131
7	Constructing the Oriental "Other": Saint-Saens's Samson et Dalila	161
8	Fictions of the Opera Box	185
9	"Eros Is in the Word": Music, Homoerotic Desire, and the Psychopathologies of Fascism, or The "Strangely Fruitful Intercourse" of Thomas Mann and Benjamin Britten	209
10	Imagined Communities: Postnational Canadian Opera	235
Pt. III	Genre, Performance, and the Cultural Politics of AIDS
11	Mozart and the Politics of Intimacy: The Marriage of Figaro in Toronto, Paris, and New York	255
12	Strange Meeting: Wilfred Owen, Benjamin Britten, Derek Jarman, and the War Requiem	277
13	Metropolitan Opera / Suburban Identity	297
14	Divas and Disease, Mourning and Militancy: Diamanda Galas's Operatic Plague Mass	315
	Contributors	335
	Index	339