"A daring experiment"; Britten, opera and television; trial by television.

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JENNIFER BARNES is Assistant Principal and Dean of Studies at Trinity College of Music, London.

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The book's downbeat subtitle says it all: the genre seems to be dying on its shaky feet. It is a slightly esoteric subject, but one the author has pursued with laudable persistence based on extensive research.
*GRAMOPHONE*

[This] study is a significant contribution to the growth of the still-young scholarship on mediated opera.
*NOTES*

Packed with closely researched detail, precisely and elegantly argued. It makes for compulsive and intelligent reading.
*BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE*

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