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| List of illustrations | |
| Preface to the second edition | |
| Preface to the first edition | |
| Introduction: Singers and Records | p. 4 |
| The Golden Legend: Pre-Electrical Recording 1900-1925 | |
| The Old Order: Nineteenth-Century Echoes | p. 14 |
| The Golden Age: Five Great Singers | p. 26 |
| New Times, New Gods: The Changing Opera | p. 41 |
| Good Deeds in a Naughty World: Lyricism Resistant | p. 51 |
| Coloratura: The Soprano as Virtuoso | p. 66 |
| Approach to Wagner: Questions of Balance | p. 86 |
| Eastern Europe: A Cultural Exchange | p. 102 |
| France: Years of Plenty | p. 113 |
| America: Talent and Training | p. 125 |
| Italy: Bel Canto con Forza | p. 134 |
| Decline and Survival: The Electrical 78 1925-1950 | |
| Decline: New Talents and Lost Discipline | p. 152 |
| Italy: A Handful of Exceptions | p. 159 |
| Around Italy: A Second Harvest | p. 177 |
| Germany and Austria: Keeper of the Seal | p. 192 |
| Lieder: More than Singing | p. 216 |
| Wagner: The Triumph of Lyricism | p. 237 |
| Splendid Isolationists: Standards in Britain and France | p. 248 |
| Old Worlds and New: Chicago and the Elevating Influence | p. 266 |
| Metropolitan: Five Great Singers | p. 285 |
| Survival: Wartime and Aftermath | p. 304 |
| Renaissance: The Long-Playing Record 1950-1970 | |
| Wagner: Every Note, Every Word | p. 324 |
| Trial by Mozart: Vintage Soprano | p. 346 |
| Opera at Home: Five Great Singers | p. 363 |
| Let the Florid Music Praise: Rococo Revival | p. 383 |
| America: The Seal Goes West | p. 407 |
| Italy: A Tale of Two Tableaux | p. 438 |
| European Notes: Moscow to Madrid | p. 462 |
| Singer and Song: An Exhibition of Artists | p. 487 |
| Ancient and Modern: The Singer as Musician | p. 511 |
| 1971: Present and Prospective | p. 537 |
| Conclusion: The Grand Tradition | p. 558 |
| Appendix: Essays in Comparison | |
| From Patti to Callas | p. 572 |
| From Gerhardt to Fischer-Dieskau | p. 593 |
| Bibliographical Note (1993) | p. 611 |
| Index of Composers | p. 613 |
| General Index | p. 621 |
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