In this Issue

Table of Contents

In Memory of William Ashbrook (January 28, 1922–March 31, 2009)

Philip Gossett
pp. 1-2
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A Note from the Guest Editor

Heather Wiebe
pp. 3-5
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The Rake's Progress as Opera Museum

Heather Wiebe
pp. 6-27
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Mechanism and Tradition in Puccini's Turandot

Arman Schwartz
pp. 28-50
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Janáček's Makropulos and the Case of the Silent Diva

Jennifer Sheppard
pp. 51-72
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Opera and Obsolescence in the Russian Culture Wars

Marina Frolova-Walker
pp. 73-96
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Anatomy of a Warhorse: Il trovatore from A to Z

Herbert Lindenberger
pp. 97-123
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Auditions

Ernst Krenek's "On the Situation of Opera"

Heather Wiebe
pp. 124-125
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On the Situation of Opera 1932: from Brought to Expression: Essays about Music

Ernst Krenek, Amy Stebbins, Hannah Eldridge
pp. 126-132
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Reviews

Scholarship

Schoenberg's Musical Imagination (review)

Steven J. Cahn
pp. 133-144
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Performance

Così fan tutte (review)

Nicholas Till
pp. 145-149
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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: Bleak Tragedy or Black Comedy? (review)

Marina Frolova-Walker
pp. 150-156
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Scholarship

Art, Business, Canon, and Opera: Two New Studies

William Weber
pp. 157-164
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Erratum

p. 165
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