Phantasmagoria

Description:

"This sociological study takes a comprehensive and critical view of opera as unique cultural artefact, as loss making 'industry', as institution with a 'museum' culture, and as consumed commondity of rare distinction and elaborate ritual."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Opera,  Social aspects,  Social aspects of Opera,  Oper,  Opernproduktion,  Inszenierung,  Aspect social,  Sociologische aspecten,  Opera's,  Musikwirtschaft,  Musiksoziologie,  Opera, history and criticism