Seeing Opera Anew: A Cultural and Biological Perspective

Contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Part 1. Music-Dramas, Evolutionary Biology, and Psychology
• Introduction: What Science has to Offer
• 1. Orfeo: Stories, Singing, and Sexuality
• 2. Rodelinda: Emotion, Music, and Drama
• 3. L’Elisir d’Amore: Mate Choice, Comedy, and Consonance
• 4. Le Nozze di Figaro: Marital Commitment and Challenges to it
• 5. Don Giovanni, Wozzeck: Assessing Adult Character
• 6. Die Walküre, Simon Boccanegra: Parenting, Power, and Posterity
• 7. The Tempest, Lear, Falstaff: Aging and Wisdom
• Part 2. Cultural Considerations Regarding Opera
• Introduction: What is meant by “Culture”
• 8. Attracting Audiences: War and Peace, Omar, Song from the Uproar
• 9. Origins and Innovations: Before and After La Bohème (the movie)
• 10. Affording Extraordinary Experiences: Les Troyens, Akhnaten
• Index