Introduction: History the extravagant art
Chapter 1: Opera and/as history
Chapter 2: Opera as (mi)lieu de mémoire
Chapter 3: Opera as historical experience
Chapter 4: Ghost notes: Opera, history, and time
Chapter 5: Opera at the limits of history
Biography
Colleen Renihan is Assistant Professor and Queen’s National Scholar in Music Theatre and Opera at Queen’s University in Kingston, ON, Canada.
This is an exciting and original work that challenges the conventional ‘wisdom’ about both opera and historiography. The author takes on the interrelations of performed musical theatre and history, with an innovative interdisciplinary focus on recent theoretical work in performance studies, as well as historiography.
Linda Hutcheon, University Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
