Richard Wagners works are among the most controversial in the history of European music because of their powerful aesthetic qualities and, in wider political ...

Quasi una Fantasia contains Adorno's own selection from his essays and journalism over more than three decades. In its analytical profundity it can be compared ...

In this ambitious and wide-ranging book, Anthony Arblaster shows that attempts by many music critics to disregard or disparage operas politics are at best delusory, ...