This study examines the place of politics in opera, uncovering the political dimension of an art form all too often considered as purely aesthetic. It takes readers on a tour of 200 years of great opera, from "The Marriage of Figaro" to "Nixon in China".
Anthony Arblaster is Reader in Politics at the University of Sheffield. His other books include Academic Freedom, The Rise and Decline of Western Liberalism and Democracy.
... a superlative music book ... that every true lover of opera
should devour greedily.
*Sunday Telegraph*
... beautifully written and argued at every turn ... with every
debate properly suffused with a true love of la liberta in every
language under the sun and moon.
*Evening Standard*
This is the book those of us for whom opera cries freedom have long
awaited. It had to be by an historian rather than a musical expert,
by a lover of opera, by one who cares for words as much as music
and who understands man's passions for liberty. Viva la Liberta! is
all these things and more.
*Ruth Rendell*
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