Ancient drama in music for the modern stage

1. Precursors, Precedents, Pretexts: the Institutions of Greco-Roman Theatre and the Development of European Opera 2. Greek Tragedy and Opera: Notes on a Marriage Manque 3. Incidental Music and the Revival of Greek Tragedy from the Italian Renaissance to German Romanticism 4. Phaedra's Handmaiden: Tragedy as Comedy and Spectacle in Seventeenth-Century Opera 5. Dance in Lully's Alceste 6. The Ghost of Alcestis 7. The Rise and Fall of Andromache on the Operatic Stage, 1660s-1820s 8. Opera Librettos and Greek Tragedy in Eighteenth-Century Venice: The Case of Agostino Piovene 9. Ancient Tragedy in Opera, and the Operatic Debut of Oedipus the King (Munich, 1729) 10. Establishing a text, securing a reputation: Metastasio's Use of Aristotle 11. The Gods out of the Machine ... and their Comeback 12. Who Killed Gluck? 13. The Metamorphosis of a Greek Comedy and its Protagonist: Some Musical Versions of Aristophanes' Lysistrata 14. Taneyev's Oresteia 15. Crossings of Experimental Music and Greek Tragedy 16. The Action Drama and the Still Life: Enescu, Stravinsky, and Oedipus 17. Sing Evohe! Three Twentieth-Century Operatic Versions of Euripides' Bacchae 18. Re-staging the Welttheater: A Critical View of Carl Orff's Antigonae and Oedipus der Tyrann 19. 'Batter the Doom Drum': The Music for Peter Hall's Oresteia and other Productions of Greek Tragedy by Harrison Birtwistle and Judith Weir