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Our modern narratives of science and technology can only go so far in teaching us about the death. Can an act of the imagination, in the form of opera, take us the rest of the way? Might opera, an art form steeped in death, teach us how to die, as this work suggests? A physician and a literary theorist bring together scientific and humanistic perspectives on the lessons on living and dying that opera imparts

Death in opera. --- Opera --- MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera. --- MUSIC / General. --- Opera.