The Operatic State: Cultural Policy and the Opera House

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Chapter 1 Introducing the Power Brokers
Chapter 2 Princely Pleasures
Chapter 3 Of Kings and Barricades
Chapter 4 The Disunited Kingdom
Chapter 5 Along the Danube and the Rhine
Chapter 6 The Jewel in the Crown-Stronger and More Permanent than Ideologies
Chapter 7 Magnificence of the Met the Commercial Fable
Chapter 8 The Chip in the Harbour
Chapter 9 Other Operas - Other Worlds
Chapter 10 Back to the Future?

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The Operatic State examines the cultural, financial, and political investments that have gone into the maintenance of opera and opera houses in Europe, the USA and Australia. It analyses opera's nearly immutable form throughout wars, revolutions, and vast social changes throughout the world. Bereson argues that by legitimising the power of the state through universally recognised ceremonial ritual, opera enjoys a privileged status across three continents, often to the detriment of popular and indigenous art forms.

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