Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Overture
1. What is a Narrative?
2. Telling, Operatically
3. Character-Narrators
4. Orchestral Narration & Authorial Commentary
5. Character-Focused Narration
6. Works & Performances
7. Performances of Works
8. Performances as Works
Finale
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Nina Penner is Assistant Professor of Music at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Reviews

Nina Penner's Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater is a remarkable blend of musicology and philosophy [that . . .] deserves to be a foundational text for future work on musical theatre. - Andrew Kania (The Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism)