Reinventing the Vocalic Body in Postopera: Conclusion

I outlined four objectives that I wanted to achieve in this book:

to extend the cultural analysis of opera to the singing body;

to identify the interaction between the singing body and the voice in opera as a site in which different discourses are encoded;

to enrich the field of opera studies with a body/voice theory; and

to define the concept of postopera in relation to a set of case studies.