Foreword / Susan McClary
Introduction / Yayoi U. Everett and Nicholas D. Stevens
1. Fear of an envoiced planet : speculative arias of the operatic hyperobject / Nicholas David Stevens
2. Posthuman voice beyond opera : songful practice of holograms, robots, machines, and vocaloids / Jelena Novak
3. Steve Reich and Beryl Korot's The Cave, theater of testimony, and the documentary turn in America opera / Ryan Ebright
4. ¡Unicamente la verdad! (Only the truth!) : Camelia la Tejana's many truths / Amy Bauer
5. Techniques and dramaturgy of the avatar in George Lewis's Afterword / Alexander K. Rothe
6. Dramaturgies of trauma : Chaya Czernowin's Infinite now / Joy H. Calico
7. Inter-Asia sensibility : vocality and materiality in Tan Dun's Tea: a mirror of soul / Nancy Yunhwa Rao
8. Of sense and sirens : Ana Sokolović's Svadba and Six voix pour sirènes / Colleen Renihan
9. Sex, myth, and power : reclaiming the "dark feminine" in Anthony Davis's Lilith / Jane Forner
10. Narratives of the self in Thomas Hyde's That man Stephen Ward / Edward Venn
11. Narrative agencies in Annie Proulx and Charles Wuorinen's Brokeback Mountain / Yayoi Uno Everett
12. From subjectivity to biopolitics : the dream in Salvatore Sciarrino's music theater / Mauro Fosco Bertola.