
Opera, Emotion, and the Antipodes Volume I
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Michael Halliwell has enjoyed a career as an opera singer in Europe and as an academic at the University of Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He has published widely, and is president of the International Association for Word and Music Studies.
Stephanie Rocke is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne affiliated with ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions with wide-ranging interests and publications in music and culture across time.
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Introduction
Jane W. Davidson, Michael Halliwell and Stephanie Rocke
Chapter 1 Historical Accounts and Emotions Contexts of Opera in Australia since Colonisation
Jane W. Davidson and Stephanie Rocke
Part 2: Western Opera in the Antipodean Metropolis & Regional Circuit (1840-1920)
Chapter 2 Setting the Scene; Preparing the Backdrop: Establishing the Cultural Space for Opera in Early Melbourne (1840-1851)
Esmeralda Rocha and Stephanie Rocke
Chapter 3 Opera and Emotions in Gold Rush Melbourne (1851-1890)
Esmeralda Rocha and Stephanie Rocke
Chapter 4 The Art of the Impossible: Fanny & Martin Simonsen's Family Odyssey
Caroline Anne Ellsmore
Chapter 5 Henry Tate's "Marvellous Melbourne": Heartfelt Responses to Opera and the Opera Companies of his Lifetime (1873-1926)
Christine Mercer
Part 3 "The Other" Opera
Chapter 6 Ethiopian Entertainers and Opera Burlesque: Blackface Parodies in Colonial Australia
Helen J. English
Chapter 7 Smoking Opium, Puffing Cigars, and Drinking Gingerbeer: Chinese Opera in Australia
Michael Williams
Chapter 8 Chinese Opera and Racism in Colonial Victoria 1853-1870
Stephanie Rocke
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