Sarah Hibberd is Associate Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Nottingham, UK. Richard Wrigley is Professor of Art History at the University of Nottingham, UK.

• Contents: Introduction, Sarah Hibberd and Richard Wrigley; Hearing through the eye in eighteenth-century French Opera, David Charlton; Nihil per saltum: chiaroscuro in eighteenth-century lyric theatre, Mark Darlow; Musical mutualism: David, Degotti and operatic painting, Mark Ledbury; Music, theatre, and the Gothic imaginary: visualising the ’Bleeding Nun’, Thomas Grey; Belshazzar’s Feast and the operatic imagination, Sarah Hibberd; Romantic painters as costumiers: the stage as pictorial battlefield, Olivia Voisin; Delaroche off stage, Stephen Bann; Performers and spectators: viewing Delaroche, Patricia Smyth; Delaroche and the drama of history: gesture and impassivity from The Children of Edward IV to Marie-Antoinette at the Tribunal, Beth S. Wright; Playing with excess: Maria Malibran as Clari at the Théâtre Italien, Céline Frigau Manning; All mixed up: Etienne-Jean Delécluze and the théâtral in art and criticism, Richard Wrigley; Bibliography; Index.

Sarah Hibberd is Associate Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Nottingham, UK. Richard Wrigley is Professor of Art History at the University of Nottingham, UK.

• Contents: Introduction, Sarah Hibberd and Richard Wrigley; Hearing through the eye in eighteenth-century French Opera, David Charlton; Nihil per saltum: chiaroscuro in eighteenth-century lyric theatre, Mark Darlow; Musical mutualism: David, Degotti and operatic painting, Mark Ledbury; Music, theatre, and the Gothic imaginary: visualising the ’Bleeding Nun’, Thomas Grey; Belshazzar’s Feast and the operatic imagination, Sarah Hibberd; Romantic painters as costumiers: the stage as pictorial battlefield, Olivia Voisin; Delaroche off stage, Stephen Bann; Performers and spectators: viewing Delaroche, Patricia Smyth; Delaroche and the drama of history: gesture and impassivity from The Children of Edward IV to Marie-Antoinette at the Tribunal, Beth S. Wright; Playing with excess: Maria Malibran as Clari at the Théâtre Italien, Céline Frigau Manning; All mixed up: Etienne-Jean Delécluze and the théâtral in art and criticism, Richard Wrigley; Bibliography; Index.