Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1. Introduction: Opera and the (Urban) Geography of Culture 1
4. 2. The Legal Spaces of Opera in The Hague 12
5. 3. Opera at School: Mapping the Cultural Geography of Schoolgirl Performance 26
6. 4. London’s Opera House in the Urban Landscape 39
7. 5. Opera and the Carnival Entertainment Package in Eighteenth-Century Turin 57
8. 6. Cockney Masquerades: Tom and Jerry and Don Giovanni in 1820s London 74
9. 7. The City Onstage: Re-Presenting Venice in Italian Opera 88
10. 8. Between the Frontier and the French Quarter: Operatic Travel Writing and Nineteenth-Century New Orleans 105
11. 9. L’italiana in Calcutta 119
12. 10. Thomas Quinlan (1881–1951) and His “All-Red” Opera Tours, 1912 and 1913 133
13. 11. Empires in Rivalry: Opera Concerts and Foreign Territoriality in Shanghai, 1930–1945 148
14. 12. “Come to the Mirror!” Phantoms of the Opera—Staging the City 162
15. 13. Open-Air Opera and Southern French Difference at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 178
16. 14. Pastoral Retreats: Playing at Arcadia in Modern Britain 195
17. 15. The Opera House as Urban Exhibition Space 213
18. 16. Underground in Buenos Aires: A Chamber Opera at the Teatro Colón 234
19. Acknowledgments 249
20. Contributors 251
21. Notes 255
22. Index 311