SUMARIO. Prologue: Tracing Opera as Soundtrack / 1 Opera as Geno-Song / 2 Opera in Cinematic Death / 3 Opera in Woody Allen’s Match Point / 4 Is Cinema’s Anxiety Opera’s Envy? / 5 Film Divas: The Problem and the Power of the Singing Women / 6 Behind the Discourse on the Opera-Cinema Encounter: Film Music Criticism and the Great Divide between Modernism and Postmodernism / Epilogue: An Ethnographic Postscript // Select Bibliography // Index.