The Operatic State
Subtitle: Cultural Policy and the Opera House (Routledge Harwood Studies in Cultural Policy)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 10, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780415278515
First sentence: If financial support by the state is the prime yardstick of" importance, then opera must certainly be the most important of the arts.