Part I. A Medical Look at Opera -- Chapter 1. Pathology and Lirics: Diseases and Illness in the Opera -- Chapter 2. Physicians, Charlatans, Healers and Aphotecaries in Opera -- Chapter 3. Caring Through Music: Music Therapy and Opera Therapy -- Part II. Relationship Between Music and the Brain -- Chapter 4. "Va Sossopra il Mio Cervello" (It Goes over My Brain): Neurology and Psychiatry in the Opera -- Chapter 5. Neuro-Musicology of Opera -- Chapter 6. The Singing Brain: Words and Music in the Opera -- Part III. Diseases that Affect Workers in the Opera World -- Chapter 7. Work and Disease in Italian Operas -- Chapter 8. Operatic Inspiration, Genius and Madness -- Chapter 9. Playing and Singing: A Demanding Profession -- Part IV. Finale -- Chapter 10. Representational Conventions and Varieties of Operatic Madness: The Gap Between Dramaturgy and Diagnosis.