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Cover -- Half-title -- Frontispiece -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The French Connection -- The Outsider -- Orpheus Unbound -- Interval -- Annus Mirabilis -- No, No, Nana -- The Exposition Tetralogy -- Latter Days -- Lost in Space -- The Last Act -- The Revolutionary -- 2 Wagner, Nietzsche, and the Polemics of Opera -- The Roots of Undying Hatred -- Across the Rhine -- Jews in Music -- The Matter of Internationalism -- A Pin to Puncture a Balloon -- Nietzsche Takes Up the Challenge -- Earnest Intensity vs. the Pleasure Principle -- Mistaking Sunrise for High Noon -- 3 Tales from the Vienna Stage -- According to Nestroy -- Passing on the Torch -- 4 Against the Victorian Grain -- G &amp -- S -- Divas on the Road -- Refinements -- 5 The Discovery of America -- A Welcome Immigrant -- The Pan of Pruriency -- A Personal Appearance -- An American Beauty -- A Martial Coda -- 6 Caviar with the Champagne -- Franco-Russian Relations -- Chekhovian -- La belle Yelena -- 7 Doing the Continental -- Border Crossings -- Principalities and Powers -- "Il conquera parce qu'il est espagnol" -- A Portuguese Welcome -- 8 South of the Equator, East of Suez -- Latin America -- Egyptian Nights -- Australia -- Japan -- 9 A Max Reinhardt Production -- An Antidote to Wagner -- The Magician -- Helen Triumphant -- Death in Venice -- La vie hitlerienne -- 10 Red Stars -- A Dying Fall -- Meet Comrade Offenbach -- A Five-Year Plan for Helen of Troy -- The Paris-Petrograd Express -- 11 French without Tears -- Civilization and Its Discontents -- Black and White -- A Symphonic Interlude -- Invitation to the Waltz -- A National Treasure -- 12 English As She Is Spoke -- Urban Planning -- Helen's Abduction to London -- An Aquatic Interlude -- Broadway Bound.

13 Rebirth from the Ruins -- The De-Nazification of Comic Opera -- Bluebeard's Castle -- 14 Conclusion: Taking Offenbach Seriously -- Hoffmann of 1,000 Faces -- Taking Comic Opera Seriously -- The Wandering Jew -- Select Bibliography -- Periodicals -- Books and Articles -- General Reference -- Works on Offenbach -- Individual Works of Offenbach -- Works on Opera, Opera Bouffe, Operetta, and Light Opera -- France -- German-Speaking World -- United Kingdom -- North America -- Russia -- Elsewhere -- Index.

Provides a fresh and global perspective on the works and influence of a nineteenth-century musical and theatrical phenomenon.