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Ouverture
M. Hüttler and H. E. Weidinger: Editorial<br>
Forewords

Prologue: Politics
M. A. Yalç?nkaya: The Recruitment of European Experts for Service in the Ottoman Empire (1732-1808)
B. M. Buchmann: Austria and the Ottoman Empire between 1765 and 1815

Act I: Fashion and Diplomacy
A. Bönsch: From Aristocratic to Bourgeois Fashion in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
S. Suner: Of Messengers, Messages and Memoirs: Opera and the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Envoys and Their Sefâretnâmes
Ç. Sar?kartal: Two Turkish-Language Plays Written by Europeans at the Academy of Oriental Languages in Vienna During the Age of Haydn

Intermezzo I
W. Puchner: Karagöz and the History of Ottoman Shadow Theatre in the Balkans from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries: Diffusion, Functions and Assimilations

Act II: Books in and about the Ottoman Empire
O. Sabev: European Printers in Istanbul During Joseph Haydns's Era: ?brahim Müteferrika and Others
G. Roper: Music, Drama and Orientalism in Print: Joseph von Kurzböck (1736-1792), His Predecessors and Contemporaries
R. Buchberger: The Austro-Turkish War of 1788-1791 as Reflected in the Library of the Viennese Bibliophile Max von Portheim

Intermezzo II
K. Springer-Dissmann: Did Mozart Drive a 'Haydn'? Cartwrights, Carriages and the Postal System in the Austrian-Hungarian Border Area up to the Eighteenth Century

Act III: The Esterház Stage
L. Wolff: Turkish Travesty in European Opera: Haydn's <i>Lo speziale</i> (1768)
C. Clark: Encountering 'Others' in Haydn's Lo speziale (1768)
N. Ç?k?gil: Haydn's Humour Reflected in <i>Lo speziale</i> (1768) and L'incontro improvviso (1775)
M. Head: Interpreting 'Abduction' Opera: Haydn's L'incontro improvvisos, Sovereignty and the Esterház Festival of 1775

Intermezzo III
C. Zoidl: A Royals' Journey in 1775: The Vienna Official Press Review

Act IV: The French Influence
D. Winkler: Crusaders, Love and Tolerance: Tragic and Operatic Taste in and Around Voltaire's Zaïre (1732)
H.-P. Kellner: The Sultan of Denmark: Voltaire's <i>Zaïre and King Christian VII (r.1766-1808) - Madness and Enlightenment
B. Holm: Occidental Portraits in Oriental Mirrors: The Ruler Image in the Eighteenth-Century Türkenoper and Gluck's iLa Rencontre Imprévue
I. Moindrot:Tamerlan: A 'Turkish' Opera by Peter von Winter for the Paris Opera (1802)

Intermezzo IV
N. Y?ld?z: Turkish Britons and Ottoman Turks in England During the Eighteenth Century

Act V: The Ottoman Stage
G. Renda: Westernisms and Ottoman Visual Culture: Wall Paintings
C. Herfert: Selim III and Mahmud II in the Limelight: Imparting Knowledge on the Ottoman Empire from the Perspective of the 'Viennese Turk' Murad Efendi (1836-1881)
E. Arac?: ?Each Villa on the Bosphorus Looks a Screen | New Painted, Or a Pretty Opera Scene": Mahmud II (r.1808-1839) Setting the Ottoman Stage for Italian Opera and Viennese Music
A. Mestyan: Sound, Military Music, and Opera in Egypt during the Rule of Mehmet Ali Pasha (r.1805-1848)

Epilogue
?The Ladies of Vienna En Masse Waited Upon the Turkish Ambassador to Compliment Him ...": Excerpts From Frances Trollope's Vienna and the Austrians (1838)

Appendix
Index
Curricula Vitae