Introduction 1. Balzac, Meyerbeer and science 2. 'Tout entier?': scenes from grand opera in Dumas and Balzac 3. The novel in opera: residues of reading in Flaubert 4. Knowing what happens next: opera in Verne 5. 'Vous qui faites l'endormie': the Phantom and the buried voices of the Paris Opera 6. Proust and the soiree ... l'Opera chez soi Envoi Bibliography.
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