Viva LA Liberta!: Politics in Opera - Hardcover
In this ambitious and wide-ranging book, Anthony Arblaster shows that attempts by many music critics to disregard or disparage opera’s politics are at best delusory, at worst a political ploy. Writing with passionate enthusiasm, both for opera and for th ideals of freedom it has so often represented, he uncovers the political dimensions of a vast range of works, from The Marriage of Figaro to Nixon in China. Beginning with an investigation of opera in revolutionary France, Anthony Arblaster goes on to analyse Mozart’s enigmatic politics, and to explore the work of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and, above all, Verdi, in the context of the Risorgimento. Further chapters examine Wagner’s early radicalism and notorious anti-semitism, nationalism in Russian, Czech and English opera, and the weaknesses of Puccini and Strauss. He also discusses the place of women in opera, and concludes with a fascinating survey of the treatment of everyday life in opera and musicals, from Dallapiccola to Sondheim.
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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.
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Books about opera are becoming commonplace, but few are as well written and as stimulating as Anthony Arblaster's Viva la Liberta! ... A superlative book. -- Sunday Times [London]
I read Viva la Liberta! with intense pleasure. This book was beautifully written, full of insights and discoveries. -- Ruth Rendell, author of Harm Done
I read Viva la Liberta! with intense pleasure. This book was beautifully written, full of insights and discoveries. -- Ruth Rendell, author of Harm Done
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- PublisherVerso
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0860913910
- ISBN 13 9780860913917
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages348
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