George Frideric Handel: Orlando, Ariodante, Alcina.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro.
Gaetano Donizetti: Maria Stuarda and Lucia di Lammermoor.
Hector Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin.
Benjamin Britten: Death in Venice.
Afterword: The crisis of modern opera.
Literature as opera, a symposium.