Introduction Emilio Sala (University of Milan, Italy), Graziella Seminara (University of Catania, Italy) and Emanuele Senici (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) 1. Staging La sonnambula in the Twenty-First Century Emanuele Senici (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) 2. Opera and Trauma: Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito 's I Puritani Biagio Scuderi (University of Catania, Italy) 3. Norma , Ibsen, and I: Experiencing Relevance and Exploring Reality in Bellini's Opera Hedda Høgåsen-Hallesby (Norwegian National Opera, Norway) 4. From the Apotheosis of Italian Genius to Melodrama: Carmine Gallone's Casta Diva Graziella Seminara (University of Catania, Italy) 5. Carmine Gallone's Casta Diva and the Italian Composer Biopic, 1935-1954: Pastiche, History and Affect Giuliano Danieli (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) 6. Emotion and Temporality: 'Casta Diva' in Film Soundtracks, 1980-2011 Matteo Giuggioli (University of Roma Tre, Italy) 7. Remediating Bellini through Sound and Video Art: Christian Marclay's Maria Callas in Context Giacomo Albert (University of Turin, Italy) 8.

'Casta Diva' Reimagined: Staging Death in Marina Abramovic's 7 Deaths of Maria Callas Jelena Novak (Universidade Nova, Lisbon, Portugal) and Michal Grover-Friedlander (Tel Aviv University, Israel) 9. Bellini's Digital Liveness Clemens Risi (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität,Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) Contributors Index.