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Contents: Dalle macchine- la maraviglia : Bernardo Buontalenti's Il rapimento di Cefalo at the Medici Theater in 1600 / by Massimo Ossi -- Opera and ballet in seventeenth-century French theaters : case studies of the Salle des machines. and the Palais royal theater / by Barbara Coeyman -- Theater architecture at the time of Henry Purcell and its influence on his "dramatick operas" / by Mark A. Radice -- Handel's Haymarket Theatre / by Mark Stahura -- Mozart and two theaters in Josephinian Vienna / by Malcolm S. Cole -- The Neues Schauspielhaus in Berlin and the premiere of Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz / by E. Douglas Bomberger -- Paradise found : the Salle Le Peletier and French grand opera / by Karin Pendle and Stephen Wilkins -- Verdi's operas and Giuseppe Bertoja's designs at the Gran teatro La Fenice, Venice ; Richard Wagner and his search for the ideal theatrical space / by Evan Baker -- Realism on the opera stage : Belasco, Puccini, and the California sunset / by Helen M. Greenwald