Opera, Emotion, and the Antipodes Volume I

Jane W. Davidson has performed in and directed opera for more than 30 years. She is currently Head of Performing Arts at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Fine Arts and Music. She has published widely, across the field of music psychology, musicology and practice as research. She is president of the Australian Music and Psychology Society. Michael Halliwell has enjoyed a career as an opera singer in Europe and as an academic at the University of Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He has published widely, and is president of the International Association for Word and Music Studies. Stephanie Rocke is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne affiliated with ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions with wide-ranging interests and publications in music and culture across time.

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