ISBN-13: 9781138353558 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 489 str.
ISBN-13: 9781138353558 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 489 str.
First published in 1999, this original and entertaining 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 commodity of rare distinction and elaborate ritual.