Ideology in Britten's Operas

This thematic examination of Britten''s operas focuses on the way that ideology is presented on stage. To watch or listen is to engage with a vivid artistic testament to the ideological world of mid-twentieth-century Britain. But it is more than that, too, because in many ways Britten''s operas continue to proffer a diagnosis of certain unresolved problems in our own time. Only rarely, as in Peter...