Abstract This paper intends to provide some methodological tools to explore the many different connections between law and opera. While the paper may of course be set in the context of studies about law and humanities, it intends to address some specific issues typical of the opera context. It proposes three different pathways: studies about legal problems as described in opera plays (“Law in opera”); analyses about the regulation of opera itself (copyright, etc., collectively referred to as “Law on opera”); and a broader, less theoretically-constrained field of connections between the two worlds, covering parallels between the circulation of legal and operatic traditions, regulations of new interaction between the audience and the staging, etc.

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歌剧与法律：批评笔记

摘要 本文旨在提供一些方法论工具来探讨法律与戏曲之间的许多不同联系。虽然这篇论文当然可能是在法律和人文研究的背景下进行的，但它旨在解决一些典型的歌剧背景的具体问题。它提出了三种不同的途径：研究歌剧中描述的法律问题（“歌剧中的法律”）；对歌剧本身的监管（版权等，统称为《歌剧法》）的分析；以及更广泛的、理论约束较少的两个世界之间的联系领域，涵盖了法律和歌剧传统的流通之间的相似之处，观众与舞台之间新互动的规则等。