Table of Contents
Part 1: Context and Concepts 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