ARGONAUT BOOKS

Timely and provocative....Scrupulously researched, it patiently refutes lazily antagonistic prejudice.Rupert Christiansen, Opera magazineWilson brings out the diversity of Britain's operatic cultures.Nikhil Krishnan, New StatesmanAlexandra Wilson unpicks the myth that opera is alien to the working class. For much of the past century, Wilson shows, opera was a hugely important thread in working-class lives.Kenan Malik, The ObserverOpera has become a stage on which questions of national identity and self-understanding are played out...It is to Wilson's credit that she recounts this troubled hist...Read More