Music in Pixérécourt's early melodramas / Katherine Astbury -- Operatic or theatrical? Orchestral framings of the voice in the melodrama Sept heures (1829) / Jens Hesselager -- Reconstructing Greek drama: Saint-Saëns and the melodramatic ideal / Elinor Olin -- In a woman's voice: musical recitation and the feminization of American melodrama / Marian Wilson Kimber -- 'Si l'orchestre seul chantait' : Melodramatic voices in Chelard's Macbeth (1827) / Sarah Hibberd -- Melodramatic spectacle on the English operatic stage / Philip Carli -- Janáček and melodrama / John Tyrrell -- Dismembering 'expectations': the modernization of monodrama in Fin-de-siècle theatrical arts / Jessica Payette -- Opera for the people: melodrama in Hugo Herrmann's Vasantasena (1930) / Nanette Nielsen -- Berlioz's 'Roméo au tombeau': melodrama of the mind / Violaine Anger -- Be it [n]ever so humble? The narrating voice in the underscore to the Wizard of Oz (MGM, 1939) / Fiona Ford -- The voice-over as 'melodramatic voice' / Jacqeline Waeber -- Dismembering the musical voice: Mahler, melodrama and Dracula from stage to screen / Jeremy Barham