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Viva la Liberta! Politics in Opera

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ISBN-10: 0860916189

ISBN-13: 9780860916185

Edition: 1992

Authors: Anthony Arblaster

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 4/17/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.93" wide x 9.02" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Anthony Arblaster recently retired as Reader in Politics at the University of Sheffield, where he had taught since 1970. He was previously a journalist on the staff of Tribune. He is the author of The Rise and Decline of Wesern Liberalism and Viva la Liberta!, a study of politics in opera.

Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
Mozart: Class Conflict and Enlightenment
Opera and the Revolution
Patria Oppressa: Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and the Risorgimento (Nationalism I)
Verdi: the Liberal Patriot
Wagner: from Revolution to Racism
Russia, Czechoslovakia and a Footnote on England (Nationalism II)
Women in Opera
Interlude - Opera without Politics: Puccini and Strauss
Democratic Opera: Victims as Heroes
Conclusion
Notes
Index