• Acknowledgments
• Act One: Georgian Patterns
• Overture: Fashionable Acts
• Opera as an “Event”: The Aesthetics of Audience Behavior
• A Subscription Culture: Gender and the Sociopolitical Foundations of Opera-going
• To See and to Be Seen: Opera and the “Theater of the Great”
• Act Two: Victorian Adaptations
• Overture to Act Two
• The Commercialization of the Opera: Entrepreneurs and the Expansion of the Public
• The Refashioning of Fashionable Society: Gender and the Transformation of Operatic Culture
• Listening in New Ways: Audience Behavior and the Cultural Politics of Opera Reviewing
• Finale: Opera and the Reform of Elite Culture
• Appendixes - Prices at the King’s/Her Majesty’s Theatre, 1780s–1880
• Prices at Covent Garden, 1847–1879
• London’s Italian Opera Managers, 1705–1878
• Additional Tables
• Abbreviations and Works Frequently Cited
• Notes
• Index