Buckler Julie A. The Literary Lorgnette: Attending Opera in Imperial Russia

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. - 294 p.List of IllustrationsAttending Opera: A Literary Ethnography of the St. Petersburg Bolshoi Theater
Embodying Opera: The Prima Donna in Russia
Representing Opera: Scene and Self
Naturalizing Opera: The Case of La Traviata in Russia
Reading Opera: The Theater of Psychological Prose
Divining Opera: Literary Tales of Operatic Heroines
Appendix: Russian Texts
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