This thematic examination of Britten\'s Operas focuses on the way that Ideology is presented on stage.
Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises; 19 Printed music items; 17 Halftones, black and white.
This book argues that it is timely - if uncomfortable - for current audiences to re-address his music.
As well as being a record of the ideological world of mid-twentieth-century Britain, these Operas continue to diagnose problems in our own time.
This thematic examination of Britten\'s Operas focuses on the way that Ideology is presented on stage