Blackness in Opera

Title Page, Copyright, Dedication

Blackness in Opera Blackness in Opera Edited by Naomi André, Karen M. Bryan, and Eric Saylor University of Illinois Press Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield © 2012 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America c 5 4 3 2 1 ∞ This book is printed on acid-free paper. Publication of this book was supported by grants from the Henry and Edna Binkele Classical Music Fund; the Office of the Vice President for Research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; the Publications Endowment of the American Musicological Society, supported through the National Endowment for the Humanities; and Friends of Drake Arts, Drake University. Frontispiece: Inigo Jones, costume for daughters of Niger, ἀ e Masque of Blackness. © Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth. Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Blackness in opera / edited by Naomi André, Karen M. Bryan, and Eric Saylor. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-252-03678-1 (hardcover : alk. paper) — isbn 978-0-252-09389-0 (e-book) 1. Blacks in opera. 2. Opera. I. André, Naomi Adele. II. Bryan, Karen M. (Karen McGaha). III. Saylor, Eric. ml1700.b53   2012 782.1089'96—dc23   20110 27787 This collection is dedicated to the memory of Catherine Parsons Smith ...