Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Prologue: What Is Food Doing in Opera? vii
4. P a r t I Convivial Beginnings
5. 1. The Symposium and the Birth of Opera 3
6. 2. The Renaissance Banquet as Multimedia Art 11
7. 3. Orpheus at the Cardinal’s Table 33
8. 4. Eating at the Opera House 50
9. P a r t I I “Tastes Funny”: Tragic and Comic Meals from Monteverdi to Mozart
10. 5. Comedy as Embodiment in Monteverdi and Mozart 83
11. 6. The Insatiable: Tyrants and Libertines 102
12. 7. Indulging in Comic Opera: Gastronomy as Identity 127
13. Part III The Effects of Feasting and Fasting
14. 8. Coff ee and Chocolate from Bach to Puccini 153
15. 9. Verdi and the Laws of Gastromusicology 169
16. 10. The Callas Diet 193
17. Acknowledgments 219
18. Notes 225
19. Bibliography 281
20. Index 311